Gendered Reputations and Aristocratic Partnership

Re-Presenting the Breton Civil War from the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64189-408-1
Verlag: ARC Humanities Press

Buch, Englisch, 138 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Gender and Power in the Premodern World

Medieval rulership is increasingly understood as the exercise of shared power, and nowhere was this partnership more evident than between married couples. The study of reputation provides a new way of assessing how the expectations of martial lordship adapted to this joint authority. This book examines the messy legacies of Jeanne de Penthièvre and Charles de Blois, duchess and duke of Brittany, and their fight to claim the ducal title at the start of the Hundred Years’ War. Their story was retold across a prolonged period of political turbulence by successive generations of narrators, who justified legitimate leadership according to disparate standards of sanctity, chivalry, and dynasty. This process shows how the gendering of one reputation influenced the gendering of the other, and how aristocratic attitudes towards violent conflict worked through positive and negative models for both the women and the men in charge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Graham-Goering, Erika

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Abbreviations of Primary Sources

Introduction

Chapter 1. Seigneurial Sanctity

Chapter 2. Chivalric Connections

Chapter 3. Dynastic Divisions

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Graham-Goering, Erika
Erika Graham-Goering is Associate Professor of European Medieval History at the University of Oslo. Her publications include Princely Power in Late Medieval France, Lordship and the Decentralized State in Late Medieval Europe, and Aux origines de la guerre de succession de Bretagne.