Noblewomen Aristocracy And Power In The Twelfth Century Anglo Norman Realm

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Noblewomen, aristocracy and power in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm

Author : Susan M. Johns
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847795544
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Noblewomen, aristocracy and power in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm written by Susan M. Johns and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The first major work on noblewomen in the twelfth century and Normandy, and of the ways in which they exercised power. Offers an important reconceptualisation of women’s role in aristocratic society and suggests new ways of looking at lordship and the ruling elite in the high middle ages. Considers a wide range of literary sources such as chronicles, charters, seals and governmental records to draw out a detailed picture of noblewomen in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm. Asserts the importance of the life-cycle in determining the power of aristocratic women. Demonstrates that the influence of gender on lordship was profound, complex and varied.

The True History of Merlin the Magician

Author : Anne Lawrence-Mathers
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030018929X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis The True History of Merlin the Magician by : Anne Lawrence-Mathers

Download or read book The True History of Merlin the Magician written by Anne Lawrence-Mathers and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A medieval historian examines what we really know about the man who was “Merlin the Magician” and his impact on Britain. Merlin has remained an enthralling and curious individual since he was first introduced in the twelfth century in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae. But although the Merlin of literature and Arthurian myth is well known, his “historical” figure and his relation to medieval magic are less familiar. In this book Anne Lawrence-Mathers explores just who he was and what he has meant to Britain. The historical Merlin was no rough magician: he was a learned figure from the cutting edge of medieval science and adept in astrology, cosmology, prophecy, and natural magic, as well as being a seer and a proto-alchemist. His powers were convincingly real—and useful, for they helped to add credibility to the “long-lost” history of Britain which first revealed them to a European public. Merlin’s prophecies reassuringly foretold Britain’s path, establishing an ancient ancestral line and linking biblical prophecy with more recent times. Merlin helped to put British history into world history. Lawrence-Mathers also explores the meaning of Merlin’s magic across the centuries, arguing that he embodied ancient Christian and pagan magical traditions, recreated for a medieval court and shaped to fit a new moral framework. Linking Merlin’s reality and power with the culture of the Middle Ages, this remarkable book reveals the true impact of the most famous magician of all time. “The story of how the image of Merlin as political prophet, magician and half-demon evolved in the Middle Ages is as fascinating as any romance.”—Euan Cameron

The Birth of Nobility

Author : David Crouch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317878272
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The Birth of Nobility written by David Crouch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 300 years separate and mutually uncomprehending English and French historiographies have confused the history of medieval aristocracy. Unpicking the basic assumptions behind both national traditions, this book explains them, reconciles them and offers entirely new ways to take the study of aristocracy forward in both England and France. The Birth of Nobility analyses the enormous international field of publications on the subject of medieval aristocracy, breaking it down into four key debates: noble conduct, noble lineage, noble class and noble power. Each issue is subjected to a thorough review by comparing current scholarship with what a vast range of historical source material actually says. It identifies the points of divergence in the national traditions of each of these debates and highlights where they have been mutually incomprehensible. For students studying medieval Europe.

Flanders and the Anglo-Norman World, 1066-1216

Author : Eljas Oksanen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521760992
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Flanders and the Anglo-Norman World, 1066-1216 written by Eljas Oksanen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relations and exchanges between Flanders and the Anglo-Norman realm following the union of England and Normandy in 1066.

Beyond the Reconquista: New Directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711-1085)

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004423877
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Reconquista: New Directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711-1085) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Reconquista: New Directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711-1085) offers an exciting series of essays by leading scholars in Hispanic Studies. This volume subjects the reality and ideal of Reconquest to a decisive and timely re-examination.

Authority, Gender and Space in the Anglo-Norman World, 900-1200

Author : Katherine Weikert
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 178327512X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Authority, Gender and Space in the Anglo-Norman World, 900-1200 written by Katherine Weikert and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Hitchcock Medallion. A ground-breaking interdisciplinary approach to the medieval manor pre- and post-Conquest.

All the King’s Women: Polygyny and Politics in Europe, 900–1250

Author : Jan Rüdiger
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004434577
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book All the King’s Women: Polygyny and Politics in Europe, 900–1250 written by Jan Rüdiger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In All the King’s Women Jan Rüdiger investigates medieval elite polygyny and its ‘uses’ in Northern Europe with a comparative perspective on England and France as well as Iberia.

Women in the Lusophone World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

Author : Darlene Abreu-Ferreira
Publisher : Baywolf Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in the Lusophone World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period written by Darlene Abreu-Ferreira and published by Baywolf Press. This book was released on 2007-11-20 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present collection echoes and contributes to a number of the issues defined by both the traditional and revisionist historiography. The intent of this special issue of the Portuguese Studies Review was to highlight some of the new research on late medieval and early modern Portuguese women, subjects typically situated outside of the academic mainstream, and to complement the four major collections on the history of Portuguese women published since 1986, as well as the larger literature dealing with Spain. The essays are organized into six general themes: “Female Characters in Late Medieval Chronicles,” “Women and Power in the Late Middle Ages,” “Habsburg Queens and Portugal,” “Women and the Economy,” “Attitudes Toward Women,” and “Women and Religion.” The volume presents essays by Amélia P. Hutchinson, José Valente, Jutta Sperling, Ivana Elbl, Susannah C. Humble Ferreira, Félix Labrador Arroyo, Annemarie Jordan, Almudena Pérez de Tudela, Amélia Polónia, Amândio Jorge Morais Barros, Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, Pedor Miguel Reboredo Marques, Marcia Eliane Alves de Souza e Mello, Jessiva V. Roitman, Inês Amorim, Elisbete de Jesus and Célia Rego, and Haruko Nawata Ward, with an Introduction by Darlene Abreu-Ferreira and Ivana Elbl. The volume also contains an Addendum on the Portuguese Estado Novo, with studies by Sonny B. Davis and Antonio Muñoz Sánchez.

High-Ranking Widows in Medieval Iceland and Yorkshire

Author : Philadelphia Ricketts
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004189475
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis High-Ranking Widows in Medieval Iceland and Yorkshire by : Philadelphia Ricketts

Download or read book High-Ranking Widows in Medieval Iceland and Yorkshire written by Philadelphia Ricketts and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the juxtaposition of legal theory and practice and the utilization of detailed family reconstruction, a comparison of the property, remarriage and identity of widows in two fundamentally different societies provides a fresh approach which reconsiders generalizations about widows’ independence.

Nobles and Nobility in Medieval Europe

Author : Anne Duggan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780851158822
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (588 download)

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Download or read book Nobles and Nobility in Medieval Europe written by Anne Duggan and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great strength of this collection is its wide range...a valuable work for anyone interested in the social aspects of the medieval nobility. CHOICE Articles on the origins and nature of "nobility", its relationship with the late Roman world, its acquisition and exercise of power, its association with military obligation, and its transformation into a more or less willing instrument of royal government. Embracing regions as diverse as England(before and after the Norman Conquest), Italy, the Iberian peninsula, France, Norway, Poland, Portugal, and the Romano-German empire, it ranges over the whole medieval period from the fifth to the early sixteenth century. Contributors: STUART AIRLIE, MARTIN AURELL, T. N. BISSON, PAUL FOURACRE, PIOTR GORECKI, MARTIN H. JONES, STEINAR IMSEN, REGINE LE JAN, JANET N. NELSON, TIMOTHY A REUTER, JANE ROBERTS, MARIA JOAO VIOLANTE BRANCO, JENNIFER C. WARD

Princely Power in Late Medieval France

Author : Erika Graham-Goering
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108489095
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Princely Power in Late Medieval France by : Erika Graham-Goering

Download or read book Princely Power in Late Medieval France written by Erika Graham-Goering and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of coexisting social norms of princely power cutting across categories of hierarchy, gender, and collaborative rulership.

The Central Middle Ages

Author : Daniel Power
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199253110
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Central Middle Ages written by Daniel Power and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Power traces the history of Europe in the central Middle Ages (950-1320), an age of far-reaching change for the continent. Seven contributors consider the history of this period from a variety of perspectives, including political, social, economic, religious and intellectual history.

Routledge Revivals: Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (2006)

Author : Margaret Schaus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351681583
Total Pages : 2033 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (2006) written by Margaret Schaus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 2033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2006, Women and Gender in Medieval Europe examines the daily reality of medieval women from all walks of life in Europe between 450 CE and 1500 CE. This reference work provides a comprehensive understanding of many aspects of medieval women and gender, such as art, economics, law, literature, sexuality, politics, philosophy and religion, as well as the daily lives of ordinary women. Masculinity in the middle ages is also addressed to provide important context for understanding women's roles. Additional up-to-date bibliographies have been included for the 2016 reprint. Written by renowned international scholars and easily accessible in an A-to-Z format, students, researchers, and scholars will find this outstanding reference work to be a valuable resource on women in Medieval Europe.

The English Aristocracy, 1070-1272

Author : David Crouch
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300172125
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The English Aristocracy, 1070-1272 written by David Crouch and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William the Conqueror's victory in 1066 was the beginning of a period of major transformation for medieval English aristocrats. In this groundbreaking book, David Crouch examines for the first time the fate of the English aristocracy between the reigns of the Conqueror and Edward I. Offering an original explanation of medieval society -- one that no longer employs traditional "feudal" or "bastard feudal" models -- Crouch argues that society remade itself around the emerging principle of nobility in the generations on either side of 1200, marking the beginning of the ancien regime. The book describes the transformation in aristocrats' expectations, conduct, piety, and status; in expressions of social domination; and in the relationship with the monarchy. Synchronizing English social history with non-English scholarship, Crouch places England's experience of change within a broader European transformation and highlights England's important role in the process. With his accustomed skill, Crouch redefines a fascinating era and the noble class that emerged from it.

Anglo-Norman Studies XLIII

Author : Stephen D. Church
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783276053
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Anglo-Norman Studies XLIII written by Stephen D. Church and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One opens each new volume expecting to find the unexpected - new light on old arguments, new material, new angles. MEDIUM AEVUM

Cross and Culture in Anglo-Norman England

Author : John Munns
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783271264
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Cross and Culture in Anglo-Norman England written by John Munns and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the passion and crucifixion of Christ as depicted in the visual and religious culture of Anglo-Norman England.

Writing History for the King

Author : Charity Urbanski
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801469724
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Writing History for the King written by Charity Urbanski and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing History for the King is at once a reassessment of the reign of Henry II of England (1133–1189) and an original contribution to our understanding of the rise of vernacular historiography in the high Middle Ages. Charity Urbanski focuses on two dynastic histories commissioned by Henry: Wace's Roman de Rou (c. 1160–1174) and Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Chronique des ducs de Normandie (c. 1174–1189). In both cases, Henry adopted the new genre of vernacular historical writing in Old French verse in an effort to disseminate a royalist version of the past that would help secure a grip on power for himself and his children. Wace was the first to be commissioned, but in 1174 the king abruptly fired him, turning the task over to Benoît de Sainte-Maure. Urbanski examines these histories as part of a single enterprise intended to cement the king’s authority by enhancing the prestige of Henry II’s dynasty. In a close reading of Wace’s Rou, she shows that it presented a less than flattering picture of Henry’s predecessors, in effect challenging his policies and casting a shadow over the legitimacy of his rule. Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Chronique, in contrast, mounted a staunchly royalist defense of Anglo-Norman kingship. Urbanski reads both works in the context of Henry’s reign, arguing that as part of his drive to curb baronial power he sought a history that would memorialize his dynasty and solidify its claim to England and Normandy.