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 France2461453UNINA03992nam 2200649 a 450 991078600360332120230803025341.01-299-05130-81-4008-4657-910.1515/9781400846573(CKB)2670000000330142(EBL)1084822(OCoLC)827236445(SSID)ssj0000819479(PQKBManifestationID)11523965(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000819479(PQKBWorkID)10844955(PQKB)10956276(MiAaPQ)EBC1084822(OCoLC)932261754(MdBmJHUP)muse43458(DE-B1597)453871(OCoLC)979579319(DE-B1597)9781400846573(Au-PeEL)EBL1084822(CaPaEBR)ebr10648942(CaONFJC)MIL436380(EXLCZ)99267000000033014220120927d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe battle of Bretton Woods[electronic resource] John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the making of a new world order /Benn SteilCourse BookPrinceton Princeton University Pressc20131 online resource (478 p.)"A Council on Foreign Relations Book."0-691-16237-9 0-691-14909-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- The world comes to the White Mountains -- The improbable rise of Harry White -- Maynard Keynes and the monetary menace -- "The most unsordid act" -- The best-laid plans of White and Keynes -- Whitewash -- History is made -- Begging like Fala -- Out with the old order, in with the new -- Epilogue.When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of forty-four nations gathered in July 1944, in the midst of the century's second great war, has become shorthand for enlightened globalization. The actual story surrounding the historic Bretton Woods accords, however, is full of startling drama, intrigue, and rivalry, which are vividly brought to life in Benn Steil's epic account. Upending the conventional wisdom that Bretton Woods was the product of an amiable Anglo-American collaboration, Steil shows that it was in reality part of a much more ambitious geopolitical agenda hatched within President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Treasury and aimed at eliminating Britain as an economic and political rival. At the heart of the drama were the antipodal characters of John Maynard Keynes, the renowned and revolutionary British economist, and Harry Dexter White, the dogged, self-made American technocrat. Bringing to bear new and striking archival evidence, Steil offers the most compelling portrait yet of the complex and controversial figure of White--the architect of the dollar's privileged place in the Bretton Woods monetary system, who also, very privately, admired Soviet economic planning and engaged in clandestine communications with Soviet intelligence officials and agents over many years. A remarkably deft work of storytelling that reveals how the blueprint for the postwar economic order was actually drawn, The Battle of Bretton Woods is destined to become a classic of economic and political history.Monetary policyHistory20th centuryInternational financeHistory20th centuryMonetary policyHistoryInternational financeHistory339.5/3Steil Benn283013MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786003603321The battle of Bretton Woods3715189UNINA