• Lordship and Governance by the Inheriting Countesses of Boulogne, 1160–1260
Lordship and Governance by the Inheriting Countesses of Boulogne, 1160–1260
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Lordship and Governance by the Inheriting Countesses of Boulogne, 1160–1260

Tanner, Heather J.

Editorial: ARC Humanities Press

Colección: Gender and Power in the Premodern World

Número de páginas: 168 págs.  22.8 x 15.2 cm  

Fecha de edición: 01-06-2023

EAN: 9781802700107

ISBN: 978-1-80270-010-7

Precio (sin IVA): 151,10 €

Precio (IVA incluído): 157,14 €

Traditional scholarship argues that the changes fostered by the growth of royal power and feudalism in Western Europe directly impacted women’s public power and authority in the later twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Focusing on the inheriting countesses of Boulogne (1160–1260) and their neighbours in northern France, this monograph investigates the influence of the rise of centralized government on elite women’s power. This chronological and comparative analysis highlights successive countesses’ governance of inherited lands, the roles they played in their spouses’ lands and in political affairs outside their inherited lands, along with crucial assessments of the social identity and status of the family. It challenges the established interpretation and shows that the establishment of feudalism and the elaboration of bureaucracy did not curtail elite women’s access to or exercise of lordship to any significant degree.

 

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Inglés
País de edición:
Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña
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