HISTORY 70B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: True Cross, Military Elite, Cultural Capital
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Gender and merovingian (lineage of frankish kings) queens. She pulls off the ability to pursue the kind of life she wants to against the wishes of her husband (the king) and she founds a convent. Ends up being remembered as the mother of france even though she starts her life with such bad luck (even though france isn"t even a thing yet) Uncle kills father and brought up in uncle"s house and then king. She starts off her life in a pretty unfortunate place. But she has some money because she"s in a royal house. She ends up demonstrating that she"s politically savvy even though there are so many gender expectations. Modesty, chastity, marital concord, domestic seculsion, ideals of extreme female sacrifice, tendency to base roman claims to superiority on virtue of their women (roman) Common to accuse empress of sexual misdeeds to criticize imperial power.
