Queenship of Mathilda of Flanders, c. 1031-1083

Embodying Conquest

AvLaura L Gathagan

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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The first full-scale scholarly treatment of Mathilda of Flanders (d. 1083), duchess of Normandy and post-Conquest queen of England.In Norman England, Mathilda's unique practice of queenship was robustly public. It was characterized by an unapologetic embrace of both new and traditional institutions: military lordship, royal justice, monastic foundation and ecclesiastical reform, documentary initiatives and cultural networks. Although she may appear only glancingly in the chronicle "story sources" of her day, she is everywhere else: governing in documents and charters, articulating her identity in architecture, expressing her authority through innovative custom-made liturgies, handing down juridical sentences and participating in the most fundamental theological issues of her day. However, unlike her husband William "the Conqueror", her impact and influence have not ensured her a place of centrality in modern memory. This book redresses that imbalance. Moving away from the traditional chronological approach to a woman's life, its thematic chapters use the metaphor of Mathilda's body to center her actions, creations and speech, showing how Mathilda embodied power in a world often construed as primarily masculine. It thus brings back into focus the policies she championed, the strategies she pursued and the shape of her authority.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-04-08
Mått:156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt:666 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Gender in the Middle Ages
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN:9781837650682

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Normanderna inom Historia och arkeologi
Medeltiden inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

LAURA L. GATHAGAN is an Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York, College at Cortland. She has published widely on medieval women's power. She is a Fellow of Antiquaries of London and a member of the Royal Society of Arts.

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Gathagan's book is not a traditional historical biography... Instead, she uses Mathilda's body as the governing theme... but it succeeds in foregrounding Mathilda as a real person as well as a queen. There is an important difference between Gathagan's overt focus on the different roles Mathilda's body played in her expressions of power and scholarship that is preoccupied with the bodies of queens as nothing more than royal incubators. An interested lay reader will finish the book with an informed sense of Mathilda as a uniquely influential woman worthy of historical study.

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsChronologyList of Abbreviations Introduction1. Blood2. Hands3. Fingers4. Head5. Womb6. Flesh7. Mouth8. Corpse Select BibliographyIndex of Persons and Places

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