04431nam 2200709 a 450 991045738170332120200520144314.01-283-21108-497866132110880-8122-0061-610.9783/9780812200614(CKB)2550000000051275(EBL)3441524(SSID)ssj0000648405(PQKBManifestationID)11383226(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000648405(PQKBWorkID)10597383(PQKB)11200374(MiAaPQ)EBC3441524(OCoLC)759158230(MdBmJHUP)muse3185(DE-B1597)448913(OCoLC)979590992(DE-B1597)9780812200614(Au-PeEL)EBL3441524(CaPaEBR)ebr10491981(CaONFJC)MIL321108(OCoLC)748533322(EXLCZ)99255000000005127519990226d1999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAristocratic women in medieval France[electronic resource] /edited by Theodore EvergatesPhiladelphia [Pa.] University of Pennsylvania Pressc19991 online resource (288 p.)The Middle Ages seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8122-1700-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-256) and index. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Genealogical Tables -- Preface -- Introduction / LoPrete, Kimberly A. / Evergates, Theodore -- 1. Adela of Blois: Familial Alliances and Female Lordship / LoPrete, Kimberly A. -- 2. Aristocratic Women in the Chartrain / Livingstone, Amy -- 3. Aristocratic Women in the County of Champagne / Evergantes, Theodore -- 4. Countesses as Rulers in Flanders / Nicholas, Karen S. -- 5. Women, Poets, and Politics in Occitania / Cheyette, Fredric L. -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- IndexWere 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 than three decades ago and still widely accepted. In Aristocratic Women in Medieval France another model is put forth: women of the landholding elite-from countesses down to the wives of ordinary knights-had considerable rights, and exercised surprising power.The authors of the volume offer five case studies of women from the mid-eleventh through the thirteenth centuries, and from regions as diverse as Blois-Chartres, Champagne, Flanders, and Occitania. They show not only the diversity of life experiences these women enjoyed but the range of social and political roles open to them. The ecclesiastical and secular sources they mine confirm that women were regarded as full members of both their natal and affinal families, were never excluded from inheriting and controlling property, and did not have their share of family property limited to dowries. Women across France exchanged oaths for fiefs and assumed responsibilities for enfeoffed knights. As feudal lords, they settled disputes involving vassals, fortified castles, and even led troops into battle.Aristocratic Women in Medieval France clearly shows that it is no longer possible to depict well-born women as powerless in medieval society. Demonstrating the importance of aristocratic women in a period during which they have been too long assumed to have lacked influence, it forces us to reframe our understanding of the high Middle Ages.Middle Ages series.Upper class womenFranceHistoryUpper class womenFranceSocial conditionsWomenHistoryMiddle Ages, 500-1500FranceHistoryMedieval period, 987-1515Electronic books.Upper class womenHistory.Upper class womenSocial conditions.WomenHistory305.48/9621Evergates Theodore202701MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457381703321Aristocratic women in medieval France2461453UNINA