Aristocratic Women in Medieval France

Informationen zum Autor Theodore Evergates is Professor of History at Western Maryland College. Among his books is Feudal Society in Medieval France: Documents from the County of Champagne, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Klappentext Were aristocratic women in medieval France little more than appendages to patrilineal families, valued as objects of exchange and necessary only for the production of male heirs? Such was the view proposed by the great French historian Georges Duby more t Zusammenfassung "This elegantly written volume turns upside down prejudices and idees recues concerning society! family! and women in the Middle Ages."-The Medieval Review Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction —Kimberly A. LoPrete Theodore Evergates 1. Adela of Blois: Familial Alliances and Female Lordship —Kimberly A. LoPrete 2. Aristocratic Women in the Chartrain —Amy Livingstone 3. Aristocratic Women in the County of Champagne —Theodore Evergates 4. Countesses as Rulers in Flanders —Karen S. Nicholas 5. Women, Poets, and Politics in Occitania —Fredric L. Cheyette Notes Bibliography List of Contributors Index

Product details

• Authors: Evergates, Theodore Evergates
• Assisted by: Theodore Evergates (Editor), Ruth Mazo Karras (Editor)
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.1999
• EAN: 9780812217001
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-1700-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: The Middle Ages Series; Middle Ages; Middle Ages; The Middle Ages Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Non-fiction book; Frankreich, Europäische Geschichte: Mittelalter, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Europe / France, HISTORY / Medieval, History - General History