The Age of Abbesses and Queens

Through as analysis of narrative sources from the fifth to the eighth century, this book shows how a specific female political culture was formed

ISBN	9189116046	DEWEY edition	DC21
ISBN13	9789189116047 (What's this?)	Pages	440
Publisher	Nordic Academic Press	Volumes	001
Imprint	Nordic Academic Press	Weight (grammes)	829
Format	Hardback	Published in	Lund
Publication date	01 Jan 1998	Height (mm)	230
Library of Congress	HQ1143.H37	Width (mm)	152
DEWEY	940.12	Academic level	Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		Acknowledgements		14
		Introduction		17
		Theoretical and historiographical background		25
		Gender, power and early medieval society		25
		Biology, cultural construction and historical manifestations		29
		In the shadow of Dark Age misogyny ...		34
		Sexuality		40
		The danger of anachronistic thinking 1: misogyny		42
		The danger of anachronistic thinking 2: public and private spheres		45
		Early medieval women in current historical research: economy, reproduction and religion		51
		Women in politics		55
		Political culture and gender		60
		Analysis of early medieval texts		67
		The women of Jordanes		69
		Lampeto, Marpesia and Penthesilea: three Amazon queens		70
		Honoria		71
		The women of Gregory of Tours		73
		Basina, searching for ability		76
		Chlothild: vengeful daughter, proud grandmother and Catholic saint		77
		Chlothar I's women		85
		Radegund: the ascetic queen		87
		Ultrogotha		95
		The women of Theudebert I		95
		Charibert I's wives		98
		King Gunthchramn's women		101
		Audovera and Galswinth: wives of Chilperic I		103
		Fredegund: the enemy of God and of mankind		105
		Brunhild: a Visigothic princess far from home		130
		Faileuba		148
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Gender and Political Culture in Early Medieval Europe