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Noblewomen, aristocracy, and power in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm /

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This is a study of noblewomen in 12th-century England and Normandy, and of the ways in which they exercised power. It offers a reconceptualization of women's role in aristocratic society, and in doing so suggests original ways of looking at lordship and the ruling elite in the high Middle Ages.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johns, Susan M.
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2003.
Series:Gender in history.
Subjects:
Women > England > History > Middle Ages, 500-1500.
Aristocracy (Social class) > England > History > To 1500.
Power (Social sciences) > England > History > To 1500.
Women > Political activity > England > History > To 1500.
Nobility > England > History > To 1500.
Normans > Great Britain.
Great Britain > History > Norman period, 1066-1154.
Humanities.
History.
Regional and national history.
European history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Aristocracy (Social class)
Nobility.
Normans.
Power (Social sciences)
Women > Middle Ages.
Women > Political activity.
England.
Great Britain.
Adel.
Vrouwen.
Macht.
Frau.
Anglonormannen.
To 1500
Humaniora > Historie.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Power and portrayal
  • Patronage and power
  • Countesses
  • Witnessing
  • Countergifts and affidation
  • Seals
  • Women of the lesser nobility
  • Royal inquests and the power of noblewomen : the Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis de XII Comitatibus of 1185.