Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power : Matilda Plantagenet and her Sisters / by Jitske Jasperse.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gender and power in the premodern world | Gender and power in the premodern world | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (144 pages): illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781641891462
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 943.21024092 23
LOC classification:
  • DD801.S364 J37 2020
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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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.

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