Women, Gender and Lordship in France, c.1050–1250
Kimberly A. LoPrete
Abstract Arguing that scholars should follow methods of analysis developed by historians women in the early Middle Ages and must confront problems so‐called ‘Duby thesis’, this article shows how anachronistic analytical categories insufficient source criticism have masked our appreciation extensive political activities non‐royal aristocratic France during eleventh to thirteenth centuries. Emphasising domestic context lordship action period, as well multivalence gender an explanatory category, it reveals strong continuities between women's powers central female lords were a routine acceptable part medieval French scene.
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