COURTS, ELITES, AND GENDERED POWER IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES by Janet L. Nelson ( 9780754659334 )

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COURTS, ELITES, AND GENDERED POWER IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
CHARLEMAGNE AND OTHERS

By:

Janet L. Nelson

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Hardback

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075465933X

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9780754659334

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

28 June, 2007

Series:

Variorum Collected Studies Series

Pages:

346

Description:

Presents articles showing usefulness of gender as a category of historical analysis. This book includes papers that range more widely across early medieval time and geographical as well as social space, but most focus on the Carolingian period and on royalty and elites. It views workings of dynastic political power in social and political context.

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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.

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Ashgate Publishing Limited

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