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Lädt ... Constance of France: Womanhood and Agency in Twelfth-Century Europe (The New Middle Ages)von Myra Miranda Bom
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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 countesss 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. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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However, there simply isn't much documentary material for Bom to work with, nor archaeological evidence (we don't know where she was buried, and the estate she purchased south of Jerusalem has never been excavated), nor even a strong historiographical tradition to engage with. Unlike near contemporaries such as Eleanor of Aquitaine or the Empress Matilda, Constance didn't attract the interest of chroniclers or of 19th-century historians. As I read, I found myself wondering who this book was for—for specialists in medieval women, much of the contextualizing information is very basic and Bom doesn't offer up any real new archival discoveries or ways of approaching her subject. The interested general reader may well find Bom's book to be accessibly written and the contextual framing new and interesting, but the price of a volume in The New Middle Ages series is surely going to put this out of reach of most such readers. ( )