Lordship and Governance by the Inheriting Countesses of Boulogne, 1160-1260

Neuausgabe 2023
ISBN: 978-1-80270-010-7
Verlag: Arc Humanities Press

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 238 mm x 159 mm, Gewicht: 396 g

Reihe: Gender and Power in the Premodern World

Traditional scholarship argues that the changes fostered by the growth of royal power and feudalism in Western Europe directly impacted women’s public power and authority in the later twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Focusing on the inheriting countesses of Boulogne (1160–1260) and their neighbours in northern France, this monograph investigates the influence of the rise of centralized government on elite women’s power. This chronological and comparative analysis highlights successive countesses’ governance of inherited lands, the roles they played in their spouses’ lands and in political affairs outside their inherited lands, along with crucial assessments of the social identity and status of the family. It challenges the established interpretation and shows that the establishment of feudalism and the elaboration of bureaucracy did not curtail elite women’s access to or exercise of lordship to any significant degree.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tanner, Heather J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1: Mothers and Daughters: The Private Lives of the Countesses of Boulogne

Chapter 2: The Law, the Fief, and the Heiress

Chapter 3: By Order of the Countess: Lordship and Governance

Chapter 4: The Countesses’ Dynastic, Religious, and Spousal Powers

Chapter 5: Power and Persuasion: Politics and Diplomacy

Chapter 6: Patronage and Commemoration

Conclusion

Appendices

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tanner, Heather J.
Heather J. Tanner is an associate professor of history at The Ohio State University and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.