Her father's daughter : gender, power, and religion in the early Spanish kingdoms / Lucy K. Pick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pick, Lucy K., 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Upper class women--Spain--History--To 1500.

Upper class women.

Women and religion--Spain--History--To 1500.

Women and religion.

Monarchy--Spain--History--To 1500.

Monarchy.

Sex role--Spain--History--To 1500.

Sex role.

Power (Social sciences)--Spain--History--To 1500.

Power (Social sciences).

Women--Spain--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500.

Women.

History.

Spain--History--711-1516.

Spain.

Women--Middle Ages.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 274 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"Considers a group of royal women in the early medieval kingdoms of the Asturias and of León-Castilla; their lives say a great deal about structures of power and the roles of gender and religion within the early Iberian kingdoms. Pick examines these women, all daughters of kings, as members of networks of power that work variously in parallel, in concert, and in resistance to some forms of male power, and contends that only by mapping these networks do we gain a full understanding of the nature of monarchical power"-- Publisher's Web site.

Contents:

Visigothic inheritance, Asturian monarchy

Virgins and martyrs

Networks of property, networks of power

Memory, gift, and death.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Pick, Lucy K., 1966- author. Her father's daughter

ISBN:

9781501714320

1501714325

OCLC:

983644521