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Author Jasperse, Jitske, author

Title Medieval women, material culture, and power : Matilda Plantagenet and her sisters / by Jitske Jasperse
Published Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 134 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Gender and power in the premodern world
Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- USAGE AND CONVENTIONS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: MATERIAL CULTURE AND PERFORMANCE OF POWER -- Chapter 1. Staging the Bride and her Treasure -- Chapter 2. Small Items Making Big Impressions: Coins and Seals -- Chapter 3. Devotion and Dynasty on Parchment -- Chapter 4. Trappings Vested with Power -- Epilogue: Materializing Power and Its Afterlife -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Summary "This book argues that the impressive range of belongings that can be connected to Matilda Plantagenet, duchess of Saxony--textiles, illuminated manuscripts, coins, chronicles, charters, and literary texts--and her sisters allows us to perceive elite women's performance of power, even when they are largely absent from the official documentary account. The material traces connected to Matilda and some of her contemporaries show the importance of women as makers of material culture, as well as the dual agency of women and their objects in the consolidation of their very real, if all but unwritten, power. It is especially through the visual record of material culture that we can hear female voices, showing that women were capable of impacting their own lives as well as that of others, even if charters and chronicles fail to mention so. This forces us to redefine assumptions about power for sparsely-documented noblewomen"--Publisher's description
Analysis Matilda of England
Plantagenet
art
material culture
medieval Germany
power
textile history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from resource home page (OAPEN, viewed May 8, 2020)
Subject Matilda, Duchess, consort of Henry, Duke of Saxony, 1156-1189.
SUBJECT Matilda, Duchess, consort of Henry, Duke of Saxony, 1156-1189
Matilda, Duchess, consort of Henry, Duke of Saxony, 1156-1189 fast
Subject Women -- Europe -- Social conditions
Material culture -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Personal belongings -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Women -- Europe -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500
Sex role -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Power (Social sciences) -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
ART -- History -- Medieval.
Material culture
Personal belongings
Power (Social sciences)
Sex role
Women -- Middle Ages
Women -- Social conditions
Europe
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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