书目名称 | Constance of France | 副标题 | Womanhood and Agency | 编辑 | Myra Miranda Bom | 视频video | | 概述 | Contains rare insights into the life of a medieval woman.Applies agency theory to show how women increasingly tried and sometimes succeeded in taking control of their own lives.Explores historical asp | 丛书名称 | The New Middle Ages | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .Constance of France: Womanhood and Agency in Twelfth-Century Europe. is a biography of Constance of France, sister of King Louis VII of France. Myra Bom recovers Constance’s life story and puts it in its medieval context by examining the historical evidence of chronicles, charters, seal imprints and letters. The countess’s long and interesting life makes for women’s history with a large geographical scope, including France, England, Toulouse and the Latin East. It touches on many aspects of life during the Middle Ages such as birth, marriage and divorce, gender roles, experience of time, and expectation for the afterlife. Bom demonstrates how and to what extent medieval women could, and did, take control of their own lives. This book is an account of the interplay of historical context and agency. . | 出版日期 | Book 2022 | 关键词 | middle ages; medieval studies; women‘s history; gender studies; theory of agency; biography | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10429-9 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-10431-2 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-10429-9Series ISSN 2945-5936 Series E-ISSN 2945-5944 | issn_series | 2945-5936 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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