Moving Women Moving Objects (400-1500)

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-36344-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 685 g

Reihe: Maps, Spaces, Cultures

This collection forges new ground in the discussion of aristocratic and royal women, their relationships with their objects, and medieval geography. It explores how women’s geographic and familial networks spread well beyond the borders that defined men’s sense of region and how the movement of their belongings can reveal essential information about how women navigated these often-disparate spaces. Beginning in early medieval Scandinavia, ranging from Byzantium to Rus', and multiple lands in Western Europe up to 1500, the essays span a great spatio-temporal range. Moreover, the types of objects extend from traditionally studied works like manuscripts and sculpture to liturgical and secular ceremonial instruments, icons, and articles of personal adornment, such as textiles and jewelry, even including shoes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chapman Hamilton, Tracy

Proctor-Tiffany, Mariah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Contributors

Introduction: Women and the Circulation of Material Culture: Crossing Boundaries and Connecting Spaces

Tracy Chapman Hamilton and Mariah Proctor-Tiffany

1 Mapping Gold in Motion: Women and Jewelry from Early Medieval Scandinavia

Nancy L. Wicker

2 Remembrance and Erasure of Objects Belonging to Rus’ Princesses in Medieval Western Sources: the Cases of Anastasia Iaroslavna’s “Saber of Charlemagne” and Anna Iaroslavna’s Red Gem

Talia Zajac

3 Symbolic Geography in the Tomb and Seal of Berengaria of Navarre, Queen of England

Kathleen Nolan

4 Matilda of Saxony’s Luxury Objects in Motion: Salving the Wounds of Conflict

Jitske Jasperse

5 Female Networks and the Circulation of a Late Medieval Illustrated Health Guide

Jennifer Borland

6 Saint Birgitta of Sweden: Movement, Place, and Visionary Experience

Benjamin Zweig

7 The Place of a Queen/A Queen and Her Places: Jeanne of Navarre’s Kalila and Dimna as a Political Manuscript in Early Fourteenth-Century France

Amanda Luyster

8 Of Movement, Monarchs, and Manuscripts: the Case for Jeanne II of Navarre’s Picture Bible as a Geopolitical Bridge between Paris and Pamplona

Julia Finch

9 The Personal Geography of a Dowager Queen: Isabella of France and Her Inventory

Anne Rudloff Stanton

10 Moving Possessions and Secure Posthumous Reputation: the Gifts of Jeanne of Burgundy (ca. 1293–1349)

Marguerite Keane

11 Valentina Visconti’s Trousseau: Mapping Identity through the Transport of Jewels

Diane Antille

12 Moving Women and Their Moving Objects: Zoe (Sophia) Palaiologina and Anna Palaiologina Notaras as Cultural Translators

Lana Sloutsky

13 The Shoes of an Infanta: Bringing the Sensuous, Not Sensible, “Spanish Style” of Catherine of Aragon to Tudor England

Theresa Earenfight

Über Autor(innen)

Tracy Chapman Hamilton, (Ph.D. 2004, University of Texas at Austin) is Visiting Associate Professor of Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the author of Pleasure and Politics at the Court of France: The Artistic Patronage of Queen Marie de Brabant (1260–1321) (Brepols, 2018).

Mariah Proctor-Tiffany, (Ph.D. 2007, Brown University) is Associate Professor of Art History at California State University, Long Beach. She is the author of Medieval Art in Motion: The Inventory and Gift Giving of Queen Clémence de Hongrie (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019).