What is it about?
This chapter examines the pivotal role women played in politics—especially in the regions that impacted Anglo-Norman rule—and consciously highlights them in the telling. It focuses specifically on the political reverberations of eleventh-century family and kinship, including progeny, inheritance and succession.
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Why is it important?
Men’s activities make up the traditional narrative of the eleventh century but this chapter aims to help redress that balance; the essay preferences elite maternal status as, indeed, medieval sources often did themselves.
Perspectives
This chapter examines the 11th century from the perspective of women's political activity. It is a corrective for typical narratives of this turbulent time which generally efface women's central role on the international stage.
Professor Laura Gathagan
State University of New York at Cortland
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This page is a summary of: Family and Kinship, June 2022, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/9781108628884.008.
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