English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550 - Marriage and Family, Property and Careers

Zusatztext This ambitious study is splendidly documented, original and successful. Klappentext Portraits of aristocratic women from the Yorkist and Tudor periods reveal elaborately clothed and bejeweled nobility! exemplars of their families' wealth. Unlike their male counterparts! their sitters have not been judged for their professional accomplishments. In this groundbreaking study! Barbara J. Harris argues that the roles of aristocratic wives! mothers! and widows constituted careers for women that had as much public and political significance and were as crucial for the survival and prosperity of their families and class as their husband's careers. Women! Harris demonstrates! were trained from an early age to manage their families' property and households; arrange the marriages and careers of their children; create! sustain! and exploit the client-patron relationships that were an essential element in politics at the regional and national levels; and! finally! manage thetransmission and distribution of property from one generation to another! since most wives outlived their husbands. English Aristocratic Women unveils the lives of noblewomen whose historical influence has previously been dismissed! as well as those who became favorites at the court of Henry VIII. Through extensive archival research of documents belonging to more than twelve hundred families! Harris paints acollective portrait of upper-class women of this period. By recognizing the full significance of the aristocratic women's careers! this book reinterprets the politics and gender relations of early modern England. Barbara J. Harris is Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her previous works include Edward Stafford! Third Duke ofBuckingham! 1478-1521. Zusammenfassung This work, based on archival research, combines a collective portrait of aristocratic women with an analysis of the particular, class-specific form of patriarchy and gender relations that flourished among the upper classes in Yorkist and early Tudor England....

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• Authors: Barbara Harris, Barbara J. Harris, Barbara J. (Professor of History and Women's Studies Harris, Barbara Jean Harris
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2002
• EAN: 9780195056204
• ISBN: 978-0-19-505620-4
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; England, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Women, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), CE period up to c 1500, British & Irish history, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Gender studies: women, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Gender studies: women and girls, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval