Print version: Jasperse, Jitske Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power Leeds : Arc Humanities Press,c2020 ISBN 9781641891455
Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- USAGE AND CONVENTIONS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: MATERIAL CULTURE AND PERFORMANCE OF POWER -- Chapter 1. Staging the Bride and her Treasure -- Chapter 2. Small Items Making Big Impressions: Coins and Seals -- Chapter 3. Devotion and Dynasty on Parchment -- Chapter 4. Trappings Vested with Power -- Epilogue: Materializing Power and Its Afterlife -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
This book argues that the impressive range of belongings that can be connected to Duchess Matilda Plantagenet allows us to perceive elite women’s performance of power, even when they are largely absent from the official documentary record..