Aristocratic Women in Medieval France (The Middle Ages Series)
By Unknown Author.
Description
Were aristocratic women in medieval France little more than appendages to patrilineal families, valued as objects of exchange and necessary only for the production of male heirs? Such was the view proposed by the great French historian Georges Duby more than three decades ago and still widely accepted. In Aristocratic Women in Medieval France another model is put forth: women of the landholding elite—from countesses down to the wives of ordinary knights—had considerable rights, and exercised surprising power.The authors of the volume offer five case studies of women from the mid...
ISBN(s)
0812217004, 9780812217001
