Gender and Rulership in the Medieval German Empire
Amalie Fößel
Abstract This article discusses queens’ and empresses’ powers, the changing scope of their activities, in Medieval German Empire. As a consors regni partner politics, queens empresses played prominent roles public life influenced political decisions tenth, eleventh twelfth centuries. Then, course subsequent centuries, idea partnership ruling realm increasingly disappeared. Some duties lapsed, while other responsibilities were taken over by nobility. Queens could still participate decision making influencing King, but more they had to carve out sphere action for themselves. By later Middle Ages, held power exercised rulership royal family's hereditary territories, not Empire as whole.
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