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"The role played by women in the evolution of religious art and architecture has been largely neglected. This study of upper-class women in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries corrects that oversight, uncovering the active role they undertook in choosing designs, materials, an…
"The role played by women in the evolution of religious art and architecture has been largely neglected. This study of upper-class women in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries corrects that oversight, uncovering the active role they undertook in choosing designs, materials, an…
The role played by women in the evolution of religious art and architecture has been largely neglected. This study of upper-class women in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries corrects that oversight, uncovering the active role they undertook in choosing designs, materials, and…
"The role played by women in the evolution of religious art and architecture has been largely neglected. This study of upper-class women in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries corrects that oversight, uncovering the active role they undertook in choosing designs, materials, an…
Beschrijving van het leven en de sociale en politieke functies van Franse aristocratische vrouwen in de periode 11e-13e eeuw. Bevat de volgende bijdragen: Adela of Blois: familial alliances and female lordship / door Kimberly A. LoPrete; Aristocratic women in the Chartrain / doo…
Were aristocratic women in medieval France little more than appendages to patrilineal families, valued as objects of exchange and necessary only for the production of male heirs? Such was the view proposed by the great French historian Georges Duby more than three decades ago an…
Aristocratic Women in Medieval France
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"This elegantly written volume turns upside down prejudices and idées reçues concerning society, family, and women in the Middle Ages."--The Medieval Review.