Considers the role gender played in the production, use and preservation of documents.
How was the world of medieval documentation and memory creation affected by gender? This question is central to the essays collected here, which bring together aspects of gender and documentary culture that are usually studied only in isolation. Covering the tenth to the thirteenth centuries, the volume offers a broad geographical reach – England, France, Flanders, Germany, Spain – and an array of sources, from charters, letters and court proceedings to seals, iconography, and illumination. There is a particular focus on lay female communities, including women’s collective legal action in pre-Conquest England, documentary initiatives of Castilian peasant widows, and urban Flemish women’s sealing practices. Re-examinations of noblewomen’s centrality – and erasure – in charters focus on Ermengarde of Brittany, Mathilda of Boulogne and Berengaria of Navarre. Contributions on gender and historical writing explore their development in Ottonian courts, tenth-century English coronation portraits, Orderic Vitalis’
Historia Ecclesiastica, and French chroniclers’ rhetorical strategies for writing noblewomen’s rage. Further chapters consider monastic spaces, including women’s houses at Auxerre and Marcigny and at Holy Trinity, Caen, and explore women’s memory preservation efforts, at Spanish houses – San Salvador de Oña and Santa María de Piasca – and a community at Bouxières. This volume demonstrates the new insights that can be gleaned by viewing various processes, such as legal disputes and monastic narratives and foundation, through a gendered lens.
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Introduction –
Laura L. Gathagan and Charles Insley
Part I: Gender, Documentary Memory and Lay Community
1. Gender, Justice and Community: Women’s Legal Networks in Early Medieval England –
Andrew Rabin
2. The Peasant Widows of Early Medieval Castile –
David Peterson
3. Women, Seals, and Charters: Gendered Affirmation and Legitimation at the Hospital of Saint John Brussels –
Tiffany A. Ziegler
Part II: Gendered Approaches to Charters: Memory and Erasure
4. Enough Facts to Forge a Memory: the charters of Queen Matilda III (1135‒52) –
Steven Isaac
5. Confronting the Void: Countess Ermengarde of Brittany (
c. 1070-1147) and Medieval Charters –
Amy Livingstone
6. Remembering Female Lordship: the Case of Queen Berengaria of Navarre, Lord of Le Mans (1204/05-1230) –
Richard Barton
Part III: Gender, Dynasty and Historical Writing
7. Ottonian Women, Textual Memory, and Dynastic Legitimacy –
Laura E. Wangerin
8. Emma of Normandy and the Gendered Iconography of Crowns –
Florence H. R. Scott
9. Not all chroniclers? Orderic Vitalis and Women in the
Historia Ecclesiastica –
Tatum Tullis
10. Anger, Violence, and the Exercise of Power in High Medieval French Chronicles –
Heather J. Tanner
Part IV: Gender and Documentary Culture in Monastic Contexts
11. Women, Memory and Benedictine reform: the monasteries of Santa María de Piasca – and San Salvador de Oña –
Leticia Agúndez San Miguel
12. Women and Memory in Burgundian Charters –
Constance B. Bouchard
13. Memory and Documentary Culture at Holy Trinity Abbey, Caen in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries –
Catherine Letouzey-Réty
14. Encased in Silk. The Women of Bouxières and Their Archives –
Steven Vanderputten
Sobre el autor
STEVEN ISAAC is the Simpson Professor of Medieval History, Longwood University.
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