Her Father's Daughter : Gender, Power, and Religion in the Early Spanish Kingdoms / Lucy K. Pick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pick, Lucy K., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Women.

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

Power (Social sciences).

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

Sex role.

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

Monarchy.

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

Women and religion.

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

Upper class women.

Spain--History--711-1516.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"In Her Father's Daughter, Lucy K. Pick looks to a much-neglected aspect of the history of the Spanish kingdoms in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Her book is novel and original."-Teofilo Ruiz, author of A King Travels"Her Father's Daughter will contribute to and enrich ongoing discussions regarding the role and evolution of the medieval monarchy."-Nuria Silleras-Fernandez, author of Chariots of LadiesIn Her Father's Daughter, Lucy K. Pick 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. Pick's focus on the roles, possibilities, and limitations faced by these royal women forces us to reevaluate medieval gender norms and their relationship to power and to rethink the power structures of the era. Well illustrated with images of significant objects, Her Father's Daughter is marked by Pick's wide-ranging interdisciplinary approach, which encompasses liturgy, art, manuscripts, architecture, documentary texts, historical narratives, saints' lives, theological treatises, and epigraphy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Map

Introduction

Chapter 1. Visigothic Inheritance, Asturian Monarchy

Chapter 2. Virgins and Martyrs

Chapter 3. Networks of Property, Networks of Power

Chapter 4. Memory, Gift, and Death

Looking Forward, Looking Beyond

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

9781501714344

1501714341

OCLC:

1013821559