Courts, Elites, and Gendered Power in the Early Middle Ages

Charlemagne and Others
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-7546-5933-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 644 g

Reihe: Variorum Collected Studies

A major theme in the volume of articles by Janet Nelson is the usefulness of gender as a category of historical analysis. Papers range widely across early medieval time and geographical as well as social space, but most focus on the Carolingian period and on royalty and elites. The workings of dynastic political power are viewed in social as well as political context, and the author explores the realities of gendered power, which while constraining women, gave them distinctive possibilities for agency. These papers offer new perspectives on the Carolingian world in general and on Charlemagne's reign in particular.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nelson, Janet L

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Preface; Part 1 Gender and Power: Gendering courts in the early medieval West; The wary widow; Les femmes et l'évangélisation au IXe siècle; The problematic in the private; Monks, secular men, and masculinity, c. 900; Peers in the early Middle ages; Basilissai: power and its limits. Part 2 Charlemagne and Others: Bad kingship in the earlier Middle Ages; Bertrada; Making a difference in 8th-century politics: the daughters of Desiderius; Was Charlemagne's court a courtly society?; Why are there so many different accounts of Charlemagne's imperial coronation? (first publication); The voice of Charlemagne; Aachen as a place of power; Charlemagne - pater optimus?; Charlemagne the man; Charlemagne: 'father of Europe'?; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Janet L. Nelson is Professor of Medieval History at King's College London, UK.