Women In The Medieval Court Consorts And Concubines

Author : Rebecca Holdorph
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526739827

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Women in the Medieval Court by Rebecca Holdorph Pdf

A surprising look at women who wielded power in medieval Europe, from queens to concubines to abbesses. Medieval society might expect the elite women who decorated its courts to play the role of Queen Guinevere, but many of these women had very different ideas. Great queens, who sometimes ruled in their own right, fought wars and forged empires. Noblewomen acted behind the scenes to change the course of politics. Far from cloistered off from the world, powerful abbesses played the role of kingmaker. And concubines had a role to play as well, both as political actors and as mothers of children who might change a country’s destiny. They experienced tremendous success and dramatic downfalls. This book tells the stories of women from across medieval Europe, from a Danish queen who waged political war to form a Scandinavian empire to a Tuscan countess who joined her troops on the battlefield. Whether they wielded power in battle, from a convent, or from a throne—or even in the bedchamber—these women were far from damsels in distress waiting for their knights in shining armor.

Author : E. T. Dailey
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9004290893

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Queens Consorts - Concubines by E. T. Dailey Pdf

Queens - Consorts - Concubines offers an analysis of Gregory of Tours on issues including widowhood, marriage, sanctity, and political agency, offering a reinterpretation of elite women in Gaul (e.g. Brunhild, Fredegund, Radegund), related subjects (e.g. Merovingian marital policy), and Late Antiquity generally.

Author : Pauline Stafford
Publisher : Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000483635

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Queens, Concubines, and Dowagers by Pauline Stafford Pdf

Author : Matthew Gordon,Kathryn A. Hain
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190622183

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Concubines and Courtesans by Matthew Gordon,Kathryn A. Hain Pdf

Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History contains sixteen essays on enslaved and freed women across medieval and pre-modern Islamic social history. The essays consider questions of slavery, gender, social networking, cultural production, sexuality, Islamic family law, and religion in the shaping of Near Eastern and Islamic society over time.

Author : ابن الساعي، علي بن انجب،
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781479866793

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كتاب جهات الأئمة الخلفاء من الحرائر والإماء المسمى نساء الخلفاء by ابن الساعي، علي بن انجب، Pdf

Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were, as the title suggests, consorts to those in power, most of them concubines of the early Abbasid caliphs and wives of latter-day caliphs and sultans. This slim but illuminating volume is one of the few surviving texts by Ibn al-Saʿi (d. 674 H/1276 AD). Ibn al-Saʿi was a prolific Baghdadi scholar who chronicled the academic and political elites of his city, and whose career straddled the final years of the Abbasid dynasty and the period following the cataclysmic Mongol invasion of 656 H/1258 AD.

Author : Jung Chang
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307363121

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Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang Pdf

From the beloved, internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans, and co-author of the bestselling Mao: The Unknown Story, the dramatic, epic biography of the unusual woman who ruled China for 50 years, from concubine to Empress, overturning centuries of traditions and formalities to bring China into the modern world. A woman, an Empress of immense wealth who was largely a prisoner within the compound walls of her palaces, a mother, a ruthless enemy, and a brilliant strategist: Chang makes a compelling case that Cixi was one of the most formidable and enlightened rulers of any nation. Cixi led an intense and singular life. Chosen at the age of 12 to be a concubine by the Emperor Xianfeng, she gave birth to his only male heir who at four was designated Emperor when his father died in 1861. In a brilliant move, the young woman enlisted the help of the Emperor's widow and the two women orchestrated a coup that ousted the regents and made Cixi sole Regent. Untrained and untaught, the two studied history and politics together, ruling the huge nation from behind a curtain. When her boy died, Cixi designated a young nephew as Emperor, continuing her reign till her death in 1908. Chang gives us a complex, riveting portrait of Cixi through a reign as long as that of her fellow Empress, Victoria, whom she longed to meet: her ruthlessness in fighting off rivals; her curiosity to learn; her reliance on Westerners who she placed in key positions; and her sensitivity and desire to preserve the distinctiveness of China's past while overturning traditions (she, as Chang reveals--not Mao, as he claimed--banned footbinding) and exposing its culture to western ideas and technology.

Author : E. T. Dailey
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004294660

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Queens, Consorts, Concubines: Gregory of Tours and Women of the Merovingian Elite by E. T. Dailey Pdf

Queens, Consorts, Concubines offers an analysis of Gregory of Tours on issues including widowhood, marriage, sanctity, and political agency, offering a reinterpretation of elite women in Gaul (e.g. Brunhild, Fredegund, Radegund), related subjects (e.g. Merovingian marital policy), and Late Antiquity generally.

Author : Anise K. Strong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107148758

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Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World by Anise K. Strong Pdf

From streetwalkers in the Roman Forum to imperial concubines, Roman prostitutes defined what it meant to be a 'bad girl'.

Author : Leslie Castro-Woodhouse
Publisher : Southeast Asia Program Publications
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501755521

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Woman between Two Kingdoms by Leslie Castro-Woodhouse Pdf

Woman Between Two Kingdoms explores the story of Dara Rasami, one of 153 wives of King Chulalongkorn of Siam in Thailand during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in a kingdom near Siam called Lan Na, Dara served as both hostage and diplomat for her family and nation. Thought of as a harem by the West, Siam's Inner Palace actually formed a nexus between the domestic and the political. Dara's role as an ethnic Other among the royal concubines assisted the Siamese in both consolidating the kingdom's territory and building a local version of Europe's hierarchy of civilizations. Dara Rasami's story provides a fresh perspective on both the sociopolitical roles played by Siamese palace women, and Siam's response to the intense imperialist pressures it faced in the late nineteenth century.

Author : Theresa Earenfight
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230276451

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Queenship in Medieval Europe by Theresa Earenfight Pdf

Medieval queens led richly complex lives and were highly visible women active in a man's world. Linked to kings by marriage, family, and property, queens were vital to the institution of monarchy. In this comprehensive and accessible introduction to the study of queenship, Theresa Earenfight documents the lives and works of queens and empresses across Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages. The book: - Introduces pivotal research and sources in queenship studies, and includes exciting and innovative new archival research - Highlights four crucial moments across the full span of the Middle Ages – ca. 300, 700, 1100, and 1350 – when Christianity, education, lineage, and marriage law fundamentally altered the practice of queenship - Examines theories and practices of queenship in the context of wider issues of gender, authority, and power. This is an invaluable and illuminating text for students, scholars and other readers interested in the role of royal women in medieval society.

Author : Rubie S. Watson,Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1991-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0520071247

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Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society by Rubie S. Watson,Patricia Buckley Ebrey Pdf

Until now our understanding of marriage in China has been based primarily on observations made during the twentieth century. The research of ten eminent scholars presented here provides a new vision of marriage in Chinese history, exploring the complex interplay between marriage and the social, political, economic, and gender inequalities that have so characterized Chinese society.

Author : Betül İpşirli Argit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108488365

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Life after the Harem by Betül İpşirli Argit Pdf

The first study exploring the lives of female slaves of the Ottoman imperial court, drawing from hitherto unexplored primary sources

Author : Gwyn Campbell,Suzanne Miers,Joseph Calder Miller
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Slavery
ISBN : 9780821417232

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Women and Slavery: Africa, the Indian Ocean world, and the medieval north Atlantic by Gwyn Campbell,Suzanne Miers,Joseph Calder Miller Pdf

The particular experience of enslaved women, across different cultures and many different eras is the focus of this work.

Author : Douglas Scott Brookes
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292783355

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The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher by Douglas Scott Brookes Pdf

In the Western imagination, the Middle Eastern harem was a place of sex, debauchery, slavery, miscegenation, power, riches, and sheer abandon. But for the women and children who actually inhabited this realm of the imperial palace, the reality was vastly different. In this collection of translated memoirs, three women who lived in the Ottoman imperial harem in Istanbul between 1876 and 1924 offer a fascinating glimpse "behind the veil" into the lives of Muslim palace women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The memoirists are Filizten, concubine to Sultan Murad V; Princess Ayse, daughter of Sultan Abdulhamid II; and Safiye, a schoolteacher who instructed the grandchildren and harem ladies of Sultan Mehmed V. Their recollections of the Ottoman harem reveal the rigid protocol and hierarchy that governed the lives of the imperial family and concubines, as well as the hundreds of slave women and black eunuchs in service to them. The memoirists show that, far from being a place of debauchery, the harem was a family home in which polite and refined behavior prevailed. Douglas Brookes explains the social structure of the nineteenth-century Ottoman palace harem in his introduction. These three memoirs, written across a half century and by women of differing social classes, offer a fuller and richer portrait of the Ottoman imperial harem than has ever before been available in English.

Author : Carole Levin
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004420809

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Extraordinary Women of the Medieval and Renaissance World by Carole Levin Pdf

Contains biographical profiles of seventy women from the Medieval and Renaissance world.