Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the Middle Ages

Zusatztext 'This is a valuable study! both of female power and of the nature of monastic patronage in a specific context.' Janet Burton - Ecclesiastrical History Informationen zum Autor ERIN L. JORDAN is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado, USA. Klappentext By examining a significant corpus of secular and monastic charters, this study provides a more complex understanding of the role of religious patronage in medieval society, specifically offering a glimpse of the experience of female rulers in a period when actions were often constrained and obscured by gender bias. Zusammenfassung By examining a significant corpus of secular and monastic charters! this study provides a more complex understanding of the role of religious patronage in medieval society! specifically offering a glimpse of the experience of female rulers in a period when actions were often constrained and obscured by gender bias. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Countesses of Flanders and Hainaut Power and Authority in the Thirteenth Century: Noblewomen as Political Actors The Paradox of Gender: Exercising Power in a Patriarchal World The Conjunction of Piety and Politics Securing Salvation: Religious Patronage and Women Conclusion

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Introduction: The Countesses of Flanders and Hainaut Power and Authority in the Thirteenth Century: Noblewomen as Political Actors The Paradox of Gender: Exercising Power in a Patriarchal World The Conjunction of Piety and Politics Securing Salvation: Religious Patronage and Women Conclusion

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'This is a valuable study, both of female power and of the nature of monastic patronage in a specific context.' Janet Burton - Ecclesiastrical History

Product details

• Authors: E Jordan, E. Jordan, Erin Jordan, Erin L. Jordan
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2006
• EAN: 9781403966568
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-6656-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: The New Middle Ages; The New Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Women's and gender studies; Religion, B, Gender Studies, Sociology, European History, Religion: general, Gender studies, gender groups, Palgrave History Collection, Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval, Classical literature, Classical and Antique Literature, Religious Studies, general, Europe—History, Medieval Literature, Literature, Medieval, History of Medieval Europe, Europe—History—476-1492, gender;Middle Ages;Ovid;society;women