Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women: Pawns Or Players?Christine Meek, Catherine Lawless The passive and active of 'pawns or players' is in many ways the kernel of the ongoing debate within the analysis of the role of women in the past. The essays, by both established and younger scholars and covering a wide time-span and geographical area, range from examinations of the laws which restrained or enabled women to discussions of women who resisted the authorities, from studies of women who stepped outside their prescribed role and behaved in a manner that might be described as 'manly' to analyses of the constructions of gender and womanhood that influenced such prescriptions. |
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Page 93
... Adela wed Stephen - Henry , the eldest son and primary heir - designate to count Thibaud III of Blois , Chartres , Meaux and Troyes , one of the leading princes of northern France . The young countess was about fifteen , her husband ...
... Adela wed Stephen - Henry , the eldest son and primary heir - designate to count Thibaud III of Blois , Chartres , Meaux and Troyes , one of the leading princes of northern France . The young countess was about fifteen , her husband ...
Page 96
... Adela continued to be identified in terms of her relationship to men and even formal documents reveal that she most often acted at the request , or to the benefit , of male relatives . Thus , while Adela had a lifelong personal , and a ...
... Adela continued to be identified in terms of her relationship to men and even formal documents reveal that she most often acted at the request , or to the benefit , of male relatives . Thus , while Adela had a lifelong personal , and a ...
Page 99
... Adela's ' essential femininity ' - must be resisted and Orderic's universalising representation read in the context of his other depictions of the countess . She then emerges as a high - born daughter , dutiful wife and loving mother ...
... Adela's ' essential femininity ' - must be resisted and Orderic's universalising representation read in the context of his other depictions of the countess . She then emerges as a high - born daughter , dutiful wife and loving mother ...
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 67 | 6 |
Share and share alike? The marriage portion inheritance | 36 |
women and the conquest | 49 |
Copyright | |
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