Author: Glente, Karen ; & Winther-Jensen, Lise ; editors:
Title: Female Power in the Middle Ages : Proceedings from the 2. St. Gertrud Symposium, Copenhagen, August 1986
Description: [Copenhagen], C.A. Reitzel, 1989. orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, 191 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 11 papers. Includes: Victims of Progress: Women & the 12th Century; Cultural Attitudes & Strategies of Oppression: Medieval Motherhood; Theories of Patriarchy & Women's History; The Semiotics of Private & Public: Matrimonial Systems & their Discourse; Flemish Female Misdeeds: A Speculation; Slavic Women in the XII Century: Chronicles by Gallus Anonimus, Kosmas & Nestor; Agnest Paston; Margery Kempe; Women as Landholders & Alienators of Property in Early Medieval Scandinavia; Women as Landowners Seen in the Development of Society int he Norwegian Middle Ages.....

Keywords: Medieval Social History, Historiography, Historical, Sociology, Women, Power, , ,