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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476916203321

Titolo

Relations of Power : Women's Networks in the Middle Ages / Abigail S. Armstrong, Emma O. Bérat, Karen Dempsey, Irina Dumitrescu, Alyssa Gabbay, Rebecca Hardie, Jitske Jasperse, Julia Hillner, Stephanie Hollis, Máirin MacCarron, Mercedes Pérez Vidal, Lucy K. Pick, Emma O. Bérat, Rebecca Hardie, Irina Dumitrescu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Göttingen, : V&R Unipress, 2021

ISBN

3-7370-1242-3

3-8470-1242-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studien zu Macht und Herrschaft ; Band 005

Disciplina

305.40902

Soggetti

Middle Ages

Women

Power

Networks

Relations

Gender

Female

Agency

Medieval

Legacy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

[1. Edition]

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Women's networks - their relations with other women, men, objects and place - were a source of power in various European and neighbouring regions throughout the Middle Ages. This interdisciplinary volume considers how women's networks, and particularly women's direct and indirect relationships to other women, constituted and shaped power from roughly 300 to 1700 AD. The essays in this collection juxtapose scholarship from the fields of archaeology, art history, literature, history and religious studies,



drawing on a wide variety of source types. Their aim is to highlight not only the importance of networks in understanding medieval women's power but also the different ways these networks are represented in medieval sources and can be approached today. This volume reveals how women's networks were widespread and instrumental in shaping political, familial and spiritual legacies.