Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power
Jasperse, Jitske,
Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power Matilda Plantagenet and her Sisters / by Jitske Jasperse. - 1 online resource (x, 134 pages) : illustrations, maps. - Gender and power in the premodern world . - Gender and power in the premodern world. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Open Access
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.
9781641891462 1641891467
Matilda, Duchess, consort of Henry, Duke of Saxony, 1156-1189.
Power (Social sciences)--History--Europe--To 1500.
Sex role--History--Europe--To 1500.
Women--History--Europe--Middle Ages, 500-1500.
Personal belongings--History--Europe--To 1500.
Material culture--History--Europe--To 1500.
Women--Social conditions.--Europe
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
DD801.S364 / J37 2020
943.21024092
Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power Matilda Plantagenet and her Sisters / by Jitske Jasperse. - 1 online resource (x, 134 pages) : illustrations, maps. - Gender and power in the premodern world . - Gender and power in the premodern world. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Open Access
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.
9781641891462 1641891467
Matilda, Duchess, consort of Henry, Duke of Saxony, 1156-1189.
Power (Social sciences)--History--Europe--To 1500.
Sex role--History--Europe--To 1500.
Women--History--Europe--Middle Ages, 500-1500.
Personal belongings--History--Europe--To 1500.
Material culture--History--Europe--To 1500.
Women--Social conditions.--Europe
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
DD801.S364 / J37 2020
943.21024092