01:510:337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Courtly Love
17 Oct 2016
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Women were supposed to raise children and oversee estate (p. Little distinction between public and private life (not new) have female characteristics, as in compassionate and nurturing) Emphasis on lineage daughters over more distant male kin. Supported matilda/henry (churches intervention could be seen as helping women, but they flip a lot: use church marriage to get a divorce, generally misogtnistic, matilda the empress. Seen as wife of a husband (barons laid an oath to her until she married geoffrey and they don"t like him) Commands army (marched on london herself: melisende of jerusalem. Sees herself as heir of father , designated female heir. Fulk signing things with both names (barons support her more than him) Probably due to the fragility of the newly conquered. Establish a lineage in this region (when new dynasties take over females pop up as ruler) Rules/co-rules: matilda of boulegne (cid:523)stephen"s wife(cid:524) When husband is captured: adelaid of sicily.
