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Relations of Power

Women's Networks in the Middle Ages. Edited by Emma O. Bérat, Rebecca Hardie and Irina Dumitrescu.

Women's networks - their relations with other women, men, objects and place - were a source of power in various European and neighbouring regions throughout the Middle Ages. This interdisciplinary volume considers how women's networks, and particularly women's direct and indirect relationships to other women, constituted and shaped power from roughly 300 to 1700 AD. The eight essays in this collection juxtapose scholarship from the fields of archaeology, art history, literature, history and religious studies, drawing on a wide variety of source types. Their aim is to highlight not only the importance of networks in understanding medieval women's power but also the different ways these networks are represented in medieval sources and can be approached today. This volume reveals how women's networks were widespread and instrumental in shaping political, familial and spiritual legacies. -- Aus dem Inhalt: Julia Hillner, Máirín MacCarron: Female Networks and Exiled Bishops between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. The Cases of Liberius of Rome and Wilfrid of York; - Lucy K. Pick: Networking Power and Gender at Court: An Eleventh-Century Diploma and 'Las Meninas'; - Jitske Jasperse: With This Ring. Forming Plantagenet Family Ties; - Abigail S. Armstrong: English Royal Family Ties: Edward I and his Breton Nieces; - Mercedes Pérez Vidal: Female Aristocratic Networks: Books, Liturgy and Reform in Castilian Nunneries; - Stephanie Hollis: Dynastic Visions. Founder Abbesses of Wilton and Barking and their Eleventh-Century Successors; - Alyssa Gabbay: Mothers, Liver-Eaters and Matrilineal Descent. Hind bint ‘Utba, Muʿāwiya and 'Nasab' (Filiation) in Early Islam; - Karen Dempsey: Herstory. Exploring the Material Life of Gundrada de Warenne. 199 Seiten mit 27 teils farbigen Abb., gebunden (Studien zu Macht und Herrschaft; Vol. 5/V&R unipress/Bonn University Press 2021) Mängelexemplarstempel auf Schnitt, Kanten leicht bestoßen/defect copy on cut, edges slightly bumped