Noblewomen, aristocracy and power in the twelfth-century anglo-Norman realm / / Susan M. Johns.

• Superior document: Gender in history
• VerfasserIn: Johns, Susan M.
• Place / Publishing House: Manchester ;, New York : : Manchester University Press,, c2003.; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Gender in history.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This is the first study of noblewomen in twelfth-century England and Normandy, and of the ways in which they exercised power. It draws on a rich mix of evidence to offer an important reconceptualisation of women's role in aristocratic society, and in doing so suggests new ways of looking at lor...

Table of Contents

• Tables and figures
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Power and portrayal
• 3. Patronage and power
• 4. Countesses
• 5. Witnessing
• 6. Countergifts and affidation
• 7. Seals
• 8. Women of the lesser nobility
• 9. Royal inquests and the power of noblewomen: the Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis de XII Comitatibus of 1185
• 10. Conclusion
• Appendix 1. Catalogue of seals from the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries
• Appendix 2. Noblewomen in the Rotuli de Dominabus
• Bibliography
• Index.