Table of Contents
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Book Overview
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Chapter 1
Introduction
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Chapter 2
Power and Agency in Post-Conquest England: Elite Women and the Transformations of the Twelfth Century
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Chapter 3
The Most Perfect Knight’s Countess: Isabella de Clare, Her Daughters, and Women’s Exercise of Power and Influence, 1190–ca. 1250
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Chapter 4
Beyond Good Queen Anne: Anne of Bohemia, Patronage, and Politics
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Chapter 5
Emma of Ivry, c. 1008–1080
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Chapter 6
From Mothers to Daughters: Literary Patronage as Political Work in Ponthieu
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Chapter 7
Pirate, Traitor, Wife: Jeanne of Belleville and the Categories of Fourteenth-Century French Noblewomen
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Chapter 8
Just Another Day in the Neighborhood: Collective Female Donation Practices at the Hospital of Saint John in Brussels
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Chapter 9
A “Necessary Companion”: The Salian Consort’s Expected Role in Governance
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Chapter 10
Power in Pursuit of Religion: The Penitent Sisters of Speyer and Their Choice of Affiliation
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Chapter 11
Women of Antioch: Political Culture and Powerful Women in the Latin East
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Chapter 12
Unexceptional Women: Power, Authority, and Queenship in Early Portugal
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Chapter 13
A Lifetime of Power: Beyond Binaries of Gender
Attention for Chapter 8:
Just Another Day in the Neighborhood: Collective Female Donation Practices at the Hospital of Saint John in Brussels