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Offers an important reconceptualisation of women’s role in aristocratic society and suggests new ways of looking at lordship and the ruling elite in the high middle ages

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Literary sources
1. Power and portrayal
2. Patronage and power
Noblewomen and power: the charter evidence
3. Countesses
4. Witnessing
5. Countergifts and affidation
6. Seals
7. Women of the lesser nobility
8. Royal inquests and the power of noblewomen: the Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis de XII Comitatibus of 1185
Conclusion
Appendix one: catalogue of seals from the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries
Appendix two: noblewomen in the Rotuli de Dominabus
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 7/10/2003 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719063053, 978-0719063053
      ISBN10: 0719063051

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers an important reconceptualisation of women’s role in aristocratic society and suggests new ways of looking at lordship and the ruling elite in the high middle ages

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      Abbreviations
      Introduction
      Literary sources
      1. Power and portrayal
      2. Patronage and power
      Noblewomen and power: the charter evidence
      3. Countesses
      4. Witnessing
      5. Countergifts and affidation
      6. Seals
      7. Women of the lesser nobility
      8. Royal inquests and the power of noblewomen: the Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis de XII Comitatibus of 1185
      Conclusion
      Appendix one: catalogue of seals from the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries
      Appendix two: noblewomen in the Rotuli de Dominabus
      Bibliography
      Index

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