Noblewomen, Aristocracy and Power in the Twelfth-century Anglo-Norman Realm
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Language
English
ISBN
0-7190-6304-3
Contents
Tables and .gures
Preface
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
PART I Literary sources
2 Power and portrayal
3 Patronage and power
PART II Noblewomen and power: the charter evidence
4 Countesses
5 Witnessing
6 Countergifts and af.dation
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
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