HISTORY 70B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Fontevraud Abbey, Gender Role, Europeanisation
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Day 13: continuation of eleanor of aquitaine + There"s a lot of legends about her: where can we find evidence of her agency, we"re thinking about: It might not be them acting in certain instances. At fault for stirring them up to rebel or not stopping them as a mother for rebelling. Shows that she continues to be part of life politically even though she retired to a life of religion. A dutiful wife and mother: modest seal w/ dove symbolizing holy spirit and prophecy. She claims some religious authority but she"s pious: carefully seeking marriage partners. 1174 who died young: some of these are french attempts they kind of hate her. After divorcing their king, instead of just sitting back, she got married again and exercised a lot of power: there"s an argument that she exercised too much power. The conversion of a fictional saracen queen: gender, race, and frankish identity in.
