Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power

Matilda Plantagenet and Her Sisters
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-64189-145-5
Verlag: ARC Humanities Press

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

This book argues that the impressive range of belongings that can be connected to Duchess Matilda Plantagenet—textiles, illuminated manuscripts, coins, chronicles, charters, and literary texts—allows us to perceive elite women’s performance of power, even when they are largely absent from the official documentary record. It is especially through the visual record of material culture that we can hear female voices, allowing us to forge an alternative way toward rethinking assumptions about power for sparsely-documented elite women.

This book is available as Open Access.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jasperse, Jitske

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sachkultur, Materielle Kultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Material Culture and Performance of Power
Chapter 1: Staging the Bride and her Treasure

Chapter 2: Small Items Making Big Impressions

Chapter 3: Devotion and Dynasty on Parchment
Chapter 4: Trappings Vested with Power
Chapter 5, Epilogue: Materializing Power and its Afterlife
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jasperse, Jitske
Jitske Jasperse is Assistant Professor of Medieval Visual Cultures in the Department of Art and Visual History at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.