 | Power of the Weak: STUDIES ON MEDIEVAL WOMEN
Buy used from: $7.17 Several historians have suggested that the history of medieval women has to be searched for, combed out and built up again, in effect avoiding conventional sources written by male misogynists in holy orders. One way or another, the seven essays in this book manage this task.
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 | Aristocratic Women in Medieval France (The Middle Ages Series)
Buy new: $27.50 / Used from: $13.00 Noble daughters were raised to be placed in suitable marriages. The word "alliance" in French still carries an older connotation, that of a wedding-ring. Such ladies were also well equipped to lead. Many acquired skills from politics, to poetry, to efficient management of family domains and estates.
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 | Power of a Woman. Memoirs of a turbulent life: Eleanor of Aquitaine by Robert Fripp
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $11.00 Eleanor of Aquitaine dictates her memoirs as she nears the end of a turbulent 81 years of life. She speaks of wars, crusades, warring husbands and nine children while "too many" sons battle their father, King Henry II, and each other. Through it all, Eleanor promotes the lot of noble women in difficult times.
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 | The Knight, the Lady and the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France by Georges Duby
Buy new: $17.47 / Used from: $3.95 Marriage among the nobility in France was not always what it later became. Man, Woman, their families and alliances worked out their own salvation without too much divine intervention. Until the medieval period. Then God (or the Church) intervened with a heavier hand. Georges Duby takes up his well-told tale...
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 | Feminist Theology: A Reader
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $2.68 "Thealogy" appears in line 1, a feminine counterpoint to written-by-and-for-men theology. The essay "Women, Power and the Pursuit of Holiness in Medieval Christianity" (p. 99) describes women exercising power deriving from kindred rights of family or nobility.
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 | Leadership in Medieval English Nunneries (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion) by Valerie G. Spear
Buy new: $90.00 / Used from: $71.90 For a thorough review... Citation: Jamroziak, Emilia, review of Leadership in Medieval English Nunneries, Valerie G. Spear (review no. 518) URL: http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/ paper/ jamroziak.html
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 | Mediation and Love: A Study of the Medieval Go-Between in Key Romance and Near-Eastern Texts (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History) by Leyla Rouhi
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 | History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism by Judith M. Bennett
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 | Wife and Widow in Medieval England (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization)
Buy new: $75.00 / Used from: $20.00 Eight essays edited by Sue Sheridan Walker, their authors described by Margaret Wade Labarge as "a wide spectrum of scholars involved in the study of the frequent, if sometimes stormy, connection between wives and widows and the requirements of the law." (Florilegium 14, 1995-96)
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 | Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe by Thomas Cahill
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