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Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the Middle Ages /

By examining a significant corpus of secular and monastic charters, this study provides a more complex understanding of the role of religious patronage in medieval society, specifically offering a glimpse of the experience of female rulers in a period when actions were often constrained and obscured...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jordan, Erin L. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Series:New Middle Ages.
Subjects:
History.
Classical and Antique Literature.
European History.
Gender Studies.
History of Medieval Europe.
Medieval Literature.
Religious Studies, general.
Classical literature.
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
Literature, Medieval.
Religion.
Sex (Psychology)
Sociology.
Europe > History-476-1492.
Europe > History.
Electronic books.
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Summary:By examining a significant corpus of secular and monastic charters, this study provides a more complex understanding of the role of religious patronage in medieval society, specifically offering a glimpse of the experience of female rulers in a period when actions were often constrained and obscured by gender bias.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 193 pages)
ISBN:9781349733446
DOI:10.1007/978-1-349-73344-6