By Susan M. Johns
ISBN-10: 0719063043
ISBN-13: 9780719063046
ISBN-10: 0719063051
ISBN-13: 9780719063053
This is often the 1st examine of noblewomen in 12th-century England and Normandy, and of the ways that they exercised strength. It attracts on a wealthy mixture of proof to supply an enormous reconceptualization of women's function in aristocratic society, and in doing so indicates new methods of taking a look at lordship and the ruling elite within the excessive heart a while. The booklet considers quite a lot of literary resources reminiscent of chronicles, charters, seals and governmental documents to attract out an in depth photo of noblewomen within the 12th-century Anglo-Norman realm. It asserts the significance of the lifecycle in deciding upon the ability of those aristocratic girls, thereby demonstrating that the impact of gender on lordship was once profound, advanced and sundry.
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Yet women such as these faced a further category of analysis: that of their gender. Although noblewomen were expected to take action, and did, in appropriate contexts their roles were subject to hostile scrutiny based on ideas about gender roles. Nevertheless the ways individual women such as Countess Mabel of Gloucester, or Nichola de la Haye, are portrayed have much to tell us about the language of power and gender, as well as the way that they seized opportunities to affect political events and, in short, acted as powerful individuals at the heart of the power structures of the aristocratic and noble élite of the twelfth century.
39 They were ‘laughing and talking with the wife of the knight who ought to have been defending the castle’ when Ranulf went as though to escort his wife home. Ranulf overpowered the king’s guards and seized the castle. This event was a turning point in the civil war and the catalyst of the further events which led to uneasy peace negotiations between the empress and King 18 power and portrayal Stephen. William of Malmesbury in his Historia Novella likewise illustrates the role of wives in supporting their husbands in 1141.
A. Lodge, Textes Littéraires Français (Geneva: Droz, 1979), verses 302–8, 100–1. The countess of Hereford could either be Cecily countess of Hereford, the daughter of Sibyl de Neufmarché and Roger earl of Hereford (married three times, to Roger earl of Hereford (d. 1155), William de Poitou (d. 1162) and Walter de Mayenne (d. 1190/91): CP, 6, pp. , pp. 457–8 and note e). J. Verdun, ‘Les sources de l’histoire de la femme en Occident au X–XIII siècles’, Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale, XX (1977), 219–50.
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