Gender, Nation and Conquest in the High Middle Ages: Nest of Deheubarth - Rilegato

Johns, Susan M.

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ISBN 10: 0719089999 ISBN 13: 9780719089992

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2013

Riassunto

This is a book about one of the most notorious women of the middle ages, mistress of Henry I and many other men, famously beautiful and strong-willed, object of one of the most notorious abduction/elopements of the period and ancestress of one of the most famous dynasties in medieval Ireland, the Fitzgeralds. It is also a book about women, gender, imperialism and conquest in the middle ages. From it emerges a picture of a woman who, though remarkable, was not exceptional, representative not of a group of victims or pawns in the dramatic transformations of the high Middle Ages but powerful and decisive actors.

The book examines beauty, love, sex and marriage and the interconnecting identities of Nest as wife/concubine/mistress, both at the time and in the centuries since her death, when for Welsh writers and other commentators she has proved a powerful symbol.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Susan M. Johns is Lecturer in Medieval History at Bangor University, UK.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0719089999
• ISBN 13: 9780719089992
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 276