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This article examines how a medieval noblewoman’s positive reputation could be framed through different aspects of seigneurial power, using a case study of Jeanne de Penthievre and her war for the duchy of Brittany. Froissart wrote about Jeanne in the three main redactions of the first book of his Chroniques. However, he focused in the Amiens manuscript on her position as an heiress and the object of her followers’ loyalty, while the B text largely reduced her prominence but planted the seeds for the active military role Jeanne assumed in the Rome redaction. Such changes did not move strictly between more or less accurate reports, but engaged with different tropes that had also featured in the official portrayals of Jeanne during her lifetime. These parallel constructions of reputation reveal a plasticity to models of lordly authority even in rhetorical contexts more usually associated with formulaic and conventional representations of elite society.

The article deconstructs the myth of Dorotea Bocchi, still considered the first female professor of medicine and/or philosophy at the University of Bologna in the fifteenth century. The narration of this myth is part of a series of biographies of women, created from the early modern age to give prestige to families, institutions or cities. Although historiography has dismantled the link women-medieval universities, the idea of an extraordinary precedent still finds credit in the historical disclosure and in the historiography of women and the sciences.

International audience; In the present article, we undertake the first in-depth analysis and contextualization of the funerary inscription from the tomb lid of Countess Teresa de Carrión (d. 1093), designed by the monks at the Cluniac priory of San Zoilo in Carrión de los Condes (Palencia). Focusing on the figure of a carismatic woman from the central Middle Ages, we investigate the context of the elite kin network in Castilla-León to which she pertained, as well as the deliberate construction of her memory in later centuries. The memorial discourse was created through a complex web of documentation, both visual and written, which developed in differing patterns for a range of purposes. Their ultimate common goal was to establish an attractive – and lucrative – history of the countess as monastic patron during a time when the institution was falling into progressive decadence. In unexpected results, the material evidence of the inscription opens a new window onto a little- studied moment in the history of the monastery through the deliberate elevation of a past female patron.

Bu tezin amacı, İngiltere'deki altı idari bölgeye ait Domesday Book kayıtlarının incelenerek on birinci yüzyıl İngilteresi'nde kadın kölelerin rolü ve yerini açığa çıkarmaktır. Orta Çağ'da kadınlar genel olarak, tasvir edilirse, bir erkeğin ya eşi ya da kızı olarak tasvir edilir; aksi takdirde görünmezdir. Ancak Domesday Book kayıtları, Erken Orta Çağ İngilteresi'nde kadın kölelerin varlığını açıkça ortaya koyar. Ayrıca bu kayıtlarda kadın kölelerden bir erkeğin ne eşi ne de kızı olarak bahsedilir. Daha da ilginci, birkaç dul kadın dışında, sadece kadın köleler hem köylü sınıfının erkek üyelerinden bağımsız hem de düzenli bir şekilde sayılmıştır. Cheshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire ve Worcestershire idari bölgeleri, kayıtlarının diğer bölgelere göre daha fazla kadın köle sayısı sunması ve bu idari bölgelerin coğrafi olarak birbirlerine yakın olması nedeniyle bu araştırma için seçilmiş ve incelenmiştir. Domesday Book, kadın köleler hakkında sayısal olarak bilgi verir ancak bu kadınların toplumdaki konumları, görevleri ve potansiyel çalışma alanları çözülmesi gereken bir sır olarak kalmıştır. Bu sebeple, bu tez Domesday Book'un sayısal verilerine ve çalışma alanı olarak ipucu veren kayıtlarına dayanarak kölelerin, özellikle kadın kölelerin nerelerde çalıştırılmış olabileceğini araştırır. Bu yüzden, bu tez, sınıfları ve cinsiyetleri kadın kölelerin hayatını kısıtlamış olsa da onların Erken Orta Çağ İngiliz toplumunun aktif üyeleri olduğunu ortaya koyar.Anahtar Kelimeler: Domesday Book, Kadın Köleler, Orta Çağ'da Kadın, Cinsiyet The aim of this thesis is to provide an insight into the place and role of female slaves in eleventh-century England by examining the records of six counties in Domesday Book. In a general sense, medieval women are portrayed, if they are, as either wives or daughters; otherwise, they are invisible. However, Domesday Book reveals the presence of female slaves in Early Medieval England. They do not seem to be linked to any father or husband, and more interestingly, only female slaves are enumerated with a constant and regular pattern, and separately from the male members of peasantry with a few exceptions of widows. The records of the counties Cheshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire are selected and examined due to the fact that they have a greater number of female slaves than the other counties and they are geographically close to each other. Domesday Book offers statistical data of female slaves; however, their position, their duties and potential working areas remain a puzzle to be solved. Therefore, this thesis explores the possible places where slaves, especially female slaves may have been put to work, based on the number and clues of possible occupations obtained from Domesday Book. In this respect, it manifests that female slaves were active members of Early Medieval English society even though their class and gender may have restricted their life.Keywords: Domesday Book, Female Slaves, Medieval Women, Gender 191

International audience; This article examines the origins, development and management of the extrados (non-dotal assets, that is, goods over and above the dowry) in Genoa and Liguria from the mid twelfth to the end of thirteenth century, when several restrictions on the capacity of married women to act freely were introduced. The wide sample of mostly unpublished notarial documents collected for this study makes it possible not only to arrive at a proper definition of the extrados, but also to evaluate in what ways married women could acquire and accrue goods beyond their dowries which, at least formally, were supposed to remain separate from their husbands’ property. The many instances in which women and their husbands appear in transactions where non-dotal goods were involved enable us to assess how these goods were used in family strategies and to what extent the introduction of restrictive legal prescriptions matched actual practice.

By the late Middle Ages, new varieties of dishware, clothing, and furniture were increasingly produced in and imported into English cities. The acquisition, use, and care of an expanding array of manufactured goods, not only made merchant and artisan lives more comfortable, it made them who they were. Yet as material culture scholars have repeatedly shown, the use and meaning of objects is neither stable nor guaranteed. Archaeologists argue that the new variety of dishware available gradually changed urban eating habits, with consequences for gender relations within the household. By reading two late medieval literary descriptions of all-women’s dinner parties against these material changes, this article looks at the impact of changing material culture on household dynamics. À la fin de l’époque médiévale, la production et l’importation d’une nouvelle vaisselle, d’une nouvelle mode vestimentaire et d’un nouveau mobilier s’accélèrent dans les villes d’Angleterre. L’acquisition, l’usage et l’entretien d’une gamme de plus en plus large de produits manufacturés n’a pas seulement rendu plus aisée la vie des marchands et des artisans, mais les a transformés eux-mêmes. Cependant l’usage et le sens des objets – les spécialistes de la culture matérielle l’ont bien montré – n’est pas stable. Selon certains archéologues, la vaisselle qui commence à se répandre change peu à peu les habitudes de table avec des conséquences sur l’ordre de genre au sein du foyer. Cet article examine deux textes littéraires du Moyen Âge tardif qui décrivent des banquets exclusivement réservés aux femmes, pour évaluer l’effet de ces changements dans la culture matérielle sur les relations entre maris et femmes.

La propaganda política durante la Edad Media utilizó en ocasiones a las mujeres como arma arrojadiza entre facciones, dándose así la paradoja de que las figuras femeninas, excluidas del espacio político, eran claves en épocas de conflicto. Para demostrarlo se analizan tres momentos cruciales en la monarquía castellana, en los que se producen enfrentamientos entre hermanos por cuestiones sucesorias, y en los que se utiliza a las mujeres de la familia como medio para desprestigiar al contrario. En el último tercio del siglo XI, la rivalidad entre Sancho II y Alfonso VI, tuvo en medio a su hermana Urraca de Zamora; a mediados del siglo XIV, el enfrentamiento entre Pedro I y Enrique II, utilizó a varias mujeres de la familia como medio de propaganda; en la segunda mitad del siglo XV, la pugna entre Enrique IV e Isabel de Castilla, envolvió también a las mujeres de la familia. During the Middle Ages Spanish monarchs and nobles developed a form of political propaganda in which women were used as weapons against their political rivals. The result was that female figures, excluded from the political arena, took a great role in problematic periods. To illustrate this point, I analyze three cases from crucial times of the Kingdom of Castile, when in the fights for the throne between siblings, women of the immediate family were involved. One, which took place in the second half of the XIth century, involved the rivalry between Sancho the IInd and Alfonso the VIth. Another which centered on the rivalry between Pedro the Irst and Enrique the IInd, occurred in the middle of the XIVth century. And the third, which took place in the second half of the XVth century, pitted Enrique the IVth and Isabel of Castile.

Dulcinea y las otras mujeres que aparecen en e/Quijote configuran un panorama de retratos que dan sentido a la obra, casi tanto como las figuras de don Quijote y Sancho Panza. Podría compararse la importancia de las mujeres en el Quijote a la que tienen Jimena y sus hijas como soporte de la figura masculina del Campeador en el Poema de Mío Cid. La remembranza de estas dos obras apunta lo apropiado de buscar en las mujeres medievales los modelos femeninos de Don Quijote. Se ha apuntado que las mujeres del Quijote responden a modelos del Renacimiento o del Barroco, sin embargo, parecen mantener los valores femeninos de la Edad Media. Mediante el análisis de retratos, valores y papeles femeninos, se trata de vislumbrar si continúan los modelos diseñados en la Edad Media o si el Concilio de Trente y el Renacimiento introdujeron cambios importantes en la vida de las mujeres. Women are an important parí of Don Quixote, // not as important as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Just as the Poema del Mió Cid does not make sense without Jimena and her daughters, so Don Quixote does not make sense without Dulcinea and others like her. In Don Quixote the knight's duties include honoring his lady and fighting for women at risk. Although some scholars have argued that the women of Don Quixote are models of the Renaissance or Baroque, I see them more as medieval types. Through an examination of the women of Don Quixote, thelr roles and valúes, their virtues and vices, I show how they reflect much about the Middie Ages, without forgetting the changes brought about by the Council of Trent and the humanism of the Renaissance.

The history of medieval Irish women is elusive, despite a rich variety of textual sources. These are often normative rather than descriptive and are a predominantly male clerical product. This paper will examine the dossiers of two female saints, both from Co Cork. It will ask whether we can identify female aspirations and female voices in the literary celebration of their careers. Are they models of female empowerment or do their representations ultimately support male power structures.