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Medieval women, material culture, and power : Matilda Plantagenet and her sisters / by Jitske Jasperse.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jasperse, Jitske, author.
- Series:
- Gender and power in the premodern world.
- Gender and power in the premodern world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Matilda, Duchess, consort of Henry, Duke of Saxony, 1156-1189.
- Matilda.
- Henry, Duke of Saxony, 1129-1195.
- Henry.
- Women--Europe--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Material culture--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Material culture.
- Personal belongings--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Personal belongings.
- Women--Europe--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500.
- Sex role--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Sex role.
- Power (Social sciences)--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 134 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, 2020.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Jasperse Jitske : Jitske Jasperse is Assistant Professor of Medieval Visual Cultures in the Department of Art and Visual History at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
- Summary:
- This volume argues that the impressive range of belongings that can be connected to Duchess Matilda Plantagenet allows us to perceive elite women's performance of power, even when they are largely absent from the official documentary record.
- Contents:
- Introduction : material culture and performance of power
- Staging the bride and her treasure
- Small items making big impressions : coins and seals
- Devotion and dynasty on parchment
- Trappings vested with power
- Epilogue : materializing power and its afterlife.
- Notes:
- "Amsterdam University Press"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 6, 2026).
- ISBN:
- 9781641891455
- 1641891459
- 9781641891462
- 1641891467
- OCLC:
- 1159724906
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