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ARC Humanities Press Lordship and Governance by the Inheriting Countesses of Boulogne, 1160–1260 (Gender and Power in the Premodern World)

Name: Lordship and Governance by the Inheriting Countesses of Boulogne, 1160-1260 (Gender and Power in the Premodern World)
Brand: ARC Humanities Press

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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.

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Brand: ARC Humanities Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1802700102
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Law
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 June 2023
Listed Since: 10 September 2022

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