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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.
- Power (Social sciences)--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Sex role--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Sex role.
- Women--Europe--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500.
- Women.
- Personal belongings--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Personal belongings.
- Material culture--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Material culture.
- Women--Europe--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 134 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 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 book argues that the impressive range of belongings that can be connected to Duchess Matilda Plantagenet-textiles, illuminated manuscripts, coins, chronicles, charters, and literary texts-allows us to perceive elite women's performance of power, even when they are largely absent from the official documentary record. It is especially through the visual record of material culture that we can hear female voices, allowing us to forge an alternative way toward rethinking assumptions about power for sparsely-documented elite women.
- 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:
- 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 print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781641891455
- 1641891459
- 9781641891462
- 1641891467
- OCLC:
- 1159724906
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