Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the Middle Ages

By Erin L. Jordan

By examining a significant corpus of secular and monastic charters, this study provides a more complex understanding of the role of religious patronage in medieval society, specifically offering a glimpse of the experience of female rulers in a period when actions were often constrained and obscured by gender bias.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9812818537
• ISBN13: 9781403966568
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.4"