LEADER 04431nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910457381703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-21108-4 010 $a9786613211088 010 $a0-8122-0061-6 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812200614 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051275 035 $a(EBL)3441524 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000648405 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11383226 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000648405 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10597383 035 $a(PQKB)11200374 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441524 035 $a(OCoLC)759158230 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3185 035 $a(DE-B1597)448913 035 $a(OCoLC)979590992 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812200614 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441524 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10491981 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321108 035 $a(OCoLC)748533322 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051275 100 $a19990226d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aAristocratic women in medieval France$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Theodore Evergates 210 $aPhiladelphia [Pa.] $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 225 1 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8122-1700-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [235]-256) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tMaps and Genealogical Tables -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction / $rLoPrete, Kimberly A. / Evergates, Theodore -- $t1. Adela of Blois: Familial Alliances and Female Lordship / $rLoPrete, Kimberly A. -- $t2. Aristocratic Women in the Chartrain / $rLivingstone, Amy -- $t3. Aristocratic Women in the County of Champagne / $rEvergantes, Theodore -- $t4. Countesses as Rulers in Flanders / $rNicholas, Karen S. -- $t5. Women, Poets, and Politics in Occitania / $rCheyette, Fredric L. -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tContributors -- $tIndex 330 $aWere aristocratic women in medieval France little more than appendages to patrilineal families, valued as objects of exchange and necessary only for the production of male heirs? Such was the view proposed by the great French historian Georges Duby more than three decades ago and still widely accepted. In Aristocratic Women in Medieval France another model is put forth: women of the landholding elite-from countesses down to the wives of ordinary knights-had considerable rights, and exercised surprising power.The authors of the volume offer five case studies of women from the mid-eleventh through the thirteenth centuries, and from regions as diverse as Blois-Chartres, Champagne, Flanders, and Occitania. They show not only the diversity of life experiences these women enjoyed but the range of social and political roles open to them. The ecclesiastical and secular sources they mine confirm that women were regarded as full members of both their natal and affinal families, were never excluded from inheriting and controlling property, and did not have their share of family property limited to dowries. Women across France exchanged oaths for fiefs and assumed responsibilities for enfeoffed knights. As feudal lords, they settled disputes involving vassals, fortified castles, and even led troops into battle.Aristocratic Women in Medieval France clearly shows that it is no longer possible to depict well-born women as powerless in medieval society. Demonstrating the importance of aristocratic women in a period during which they have been too long assumed to have lacked influence, it forces us to reframe our understanding of the high Middle Ages. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aUpper class women$zFrance$xHistory 606 $aUpper class women$zFrance$xSocial conditions 606 $aWomen$xHistory$yMiddle Ages, 500-1500 607 $aFrance$xHistory$yMedieval period, 987-1515 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aUpper class women$xHistory. 615 0$aUpper class women$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aWomen$xHistory 676 $a305.48/9621 701 $aEvergates$b Theodore$0202701 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457381703321 996 $aAristocratic women in medieval France$92461453 997 $aUNINA