IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 615: Power in Practice, II: The Power of a Queen's Inheritance
Tuesday 15 July 2003, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Department of History, Seattle University |
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Organiser: | Theresa Earenfight, Department of History, Seattle University |
Moderator/Chair: | Russell Martin, Department of History, Westminster College, Pennsylvania |
Paper 615-a | 'A Woman of Subtlety and a Man's Resolution': Matilda of Boulogne, Geoffrey de Mandeville and the Politics of the Anarchy (Language: English) Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies |
Paper 615-c | The Power of Queen Melisende's Patronage in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies |
Abstract | These papers take up the problem of a queen's inheritance, both land and lordship, and the ways in which both were contested by nobles as well as sons and brothers. Examining the problem comparatively - England, Portugal, and the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem - reveals that although the challenges were similar the strategies for securing and exercising power and authority differed from place to place, suggesting both the power of personality and the role of political culture as a mediating force for gender differences. |