Gendered Reputations and Aristocratic Partnership: Re-Presenting the Breton Civil War from the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries - Couverture souple

Graham-Goering, Erika

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1802703616 ISBN 13 : 9781802703610

Editeur : Arc Humanities Press, 2026

Synopsis

Medieval rulership is increasingly understood as the exercise of shared power, and nowhere was this partnership more evident than between married couples. The study of reputation provides a new way of assessing how the expectations of martial lordship adapted to this joint authority. This book examines the messy legacies of Jeanne de Penthièvre and Charles de Blois, duchess and duke of Brittany, and their fight to claim the ducal title at the start of the Hundred Years’ War. Their story was retold across a prolonged period of political turbulence by successive generations of narrators, who justified legitimate leadership according to disparate standards of sanctity, chivalry, and dynasty. This process shows how the gendering of one reputation influenced the gendering of the other, and how aristocratic attitudes towards violent conflict worked through positive and negative models for both the women and the men in charge.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Erika Graham-Goering is Associate Professor of European Medieval History at the University of Oslo. Her publications include Princely Power in Late Medieval France, Lordship and the Decentralized State in Late Medieval Europe, and Aux origines de la guerre de succession de Bretagne.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arc Humanities Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1802703616
• ISBN 13: 9781802703610
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 150
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible