Empress Adelheid and Countess Matilda
Empress Adelheid and Countess Matilda

Author: Penelope Nash

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-02-15

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1137585145

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This book compares two successful, elite women, Empress Adelheid (931-999) and Countess Matilda (1046-1115), for their relative ability to retain their wealth and power in the midst of the profound social changes of the eleventh century. The careers of the Ottonian queen and empress Adelheid and Countess Matilda of Tuscany reveal a growth of opportunities for women to access wealth and power. These two women are analyzed under three categories: their relationships with family and friends, how they managed their property (particularly land), and how they ruled. This analysis encourages a better understanding of gender relations in both the past and the present.

Imperial Ladies of the Ottonian Dynasty
Imperial Ladies of the Ottonian Dynasty

Author: Phyllis G. Jestice

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-04-12

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 3319773062

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In tenth-century Europe and particularly in Germany, imperial women were able to wield power in ways that were scarcely imaginable in earlier centuries. Theophanu and Adelheid were two of the most influential figures in the Ottonian reich along with their husbands, who relied heavily on their support. Phyllis G. Jestice examines an array of factors that produced their power and prestige, including societal attitudes toward women, their wealth, their unction as queens, and their carefully constructed image of piety. Due to their influential positions, Theophanu and Adelheid reclaimed control of the young Otto III despite fierce opposition from Henry the Quarrelsome during the throne struggle of 984. In examining how they successfully secured the regency, this book confronts the outmoded notion of exceptionalism and illuminates the lives of powerful Ottonian women.

Matilda
Matilda

Author: Catherine Hanley

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2019-04-23

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 0300245068

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A life of Matilda—empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages Matilda was a daughter, wife, and mother. But she was also empress, heir to the English crown—the first woman ever to hold the position—and an able military general. This new biography explores Matilda’s achievements as military and political leader, and sets her life and career in full context. Catherine Hanley provides fresh insight into Matilda's campaign to claim the title of queen, her approach to allied kingdoms and rival rulers, and her role in the succession crisis. Hanley highlights how Matilda fought for the throne, and argues that although she never sat on it herself her reward was to see her son become king. Extraordinarily, her line has continued through every single monarch of England or Britain from that time to the present day.

Making Love in the Twelfth Century
Making Love in the Twelfth Century

Author: Barbara Newman

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-06-13

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 0812248090

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Can the Letters of Two Lovers be the previously lost love letters of Abelard and Heloise? Making Love in the Twelfth Century presents a new literary translation of the collection, along with a full commentary and two extended essays that parse its literary and intellectual contexts and chart the course of the doomed affair.

Bonizo of Sutri
Bonizo of Sutri

Author: John A. Dempsey

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023-04-11

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1793608245

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This book provides a groundbreaking reinterpretation of the life and career of the preeminent polemicist of the Bishop Bonizo of Sutri. Through a meticulous analysis of Bonizo’s literary works and contemporary reports about his activities, the author uncovers the populist roots of both the bishop’s reform ideology and his vision of holy war against a heretical emperor, Henry IV of Germany. In establishing the predominance of Bonizo’s personal experience as a member of the populist Lombard reform community, the Pataria, in the formation of his thought, this study shatters the picture of a uniform Gregorian party and greatly strengthens the impression of the papal reform movement as a fragile coalition of multiple regional partners, like the Pataria, which enjoyed a fundamental unity of purpose but whose individual constituencies often diverged in their particular strategic objectives. This investigation, moreover, sets Bonizo’s story within the context of the urban life of his native Lombardy and examines the relationship between popular religious reform and the gradual development of communal government in northern Italy.

Royal and Elite Households in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Royal and Elite Households in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-03-12

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 900436076X

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In this volume, the authors bring fresh approaches to the subject of royal and noble households in medieval and early modern Europe. The essays focus on the people of the highest social rank: the nuclear and extended royal family, their household attendants, noblemen and noblewomen as courtiers, and physicians. Themes include financial and administrative management, itinerant households, the household of an imprisoned noblewoman, blended households, and cultural influence. The essays are grounded in sources such as records of court ceremonial, economic records, letters, legal records, wills, and inventories. The authors employ a variety of methods, including prosopography, economic history, visual analysis, network analysis, and gift exchange, and the collection is engaged with current political, sociological, anthropological, gender, and feminist theories.

Women in the Piast Dynasty
Women in the Piast Dynasty

Author: Grzegorz Pac

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-03-07

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 9004508538

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This is the first comprehensive study of the role of women in the Polish Piast dynasty from 965 until c.1144, comparing them with female members of other contemporary medieval dynasties.

The Mitre: Its Origins and Early Development
The Mitre: Its Origins and Early Development

Author: Nancy Spies

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-06-20

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 9004691510

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The story of the mitre began during the 11th-century church reform movements and was, surprisingly, inspired by a popular pastime. After a thousand years of bare heads, the Church finally had an official hat, signaling newly-structured internal dynamics, an increase in power and influence in society, and greater parity with secular leaders.

Adela of Blois
Adela of Blois

Author: Kimberly A. LoPrete

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 710

ISBN-13:

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Based on a comprehensive re-evaluation of sources, this is the first scholarly volume devoted to the life and political career of Adela, the youngest daughter of William the Conqueror, who ruled as Countess of Blois, Chartres and Meaux for 20 years.