Authority, gender and space in the Anglo-Norman world, 900-1200 / Katherine Weikert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weikert, Katherine, author.

Series:

Gender in the Middle Ages ; v. 14.

Gender in the Middle Ages ; volume 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manors--England--History--To 1500.

Manors.

Manors--France--Normandy--History--To 1500.

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

Power (Social sciences).

Power (Social sciences)--France--Normandy--History--To 1500.

History.

England--Social life and customs--1066-1485.

England.

Manners and customs.

France--Social life and customs--To 1328.

France.

France--Normandy.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 216 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA : The Boydell Press, 2020.

Summary:

Medieval manors have long been the subject of academic study, though the ways in which these houses reflected and shaped - and were shaped by - their occupants to express social authority have not yet been fully explored. This book undertakes a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary examination of them, aiming to provide a fuller account of how concepts of space and domestic place were understood, represented, and used by their occupants in England and Normandy from c. 900 to c. 1200, and how this illuminates aspects of gender and authority in the period. Blending approaches from archaeology and history, it uses evidence from Anglo-Saxon wills, standing and excavated manorial sites in England and Normandy, and a variety of written texts from vitae to history to poetry, in order to delve into, deconstruct and reconstruct gendered notions of authority in the period. This book ultimately challenges ideas of gendered objects and places through the medieval construction of authoritative personae, and the use and representation of medieval manors, focusing on the household as a place and space of performance in the age of the Norman Conquest.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. One Acting with Objects

Playing by numbers

Women's tapestries, men's horns?

ch. Two Experiencing Spaces I

People and Privacy

Methods and how to read access analyses

Meditations on medieval `privacy'

How elite is elite?

ch. Three Experiencing Spaces II

Buildings and Spaces

Authority as display: early tenth through the mid-eleventh centuries

Shirting systems: late tenth through the mid-twelfth centuries

Withdrawing places: mid-eleventh through the late twelfth centuries

Displaying authority and gender?

ch. Four Writing Places

`never have I entrusted the Danes' hall to anyone but you'

Baudri's interior design disaster

Scandalous Eadwig, salacious Ælfgifu and steely Dunstan

Changing spaces.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

178327512X

9781783275120

OCLC:

1119530774