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Medieval Elite Women and the Exercise of Power, 1100–1400, 2019
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Medieval Feminist Forum, 2006
... The essays by Malcom Barber ("The Templar Preceptory of Douzens (Aude) in the Tw... more ... The essays by Malcom Barber ("The Templar Preceptory of Douzens (Aude) in the Twelfth Century"), Linda M. Paterson, ("Occitan Literature and the Holy Land"), Laurent Mace ("Raymond VII of Toulouse: The Son of Queen Joanna, 'Young Count' and Light of the World ...
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This article examines a series of wills created by members of the royal family of Portugal over t... more This article examines a series of wills created by members of the royal family of Portugal over three generations, from the mid-twelfth to the mid-thirteenth century. Wills served different functions depending on the political context of their makers: fundamentally pious documents, expressing hopes for salvation, they also worked to shape the political future of the realm. Above all, these wills demonstrate certain features of material life and the deep personal connections enjoyed by members of this large and fractious family.
Historical Reflections Volume 43, Issue 1, Winter 2017: 77–92
doi: 10.3167/hrrh.2017.430107 ISSN 0315-7997 (Print), ISSN 1939-2419 (Online)
© Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques and Berghahn Books
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Published in _Medieval Mothering_ edited by Bonnie Wheeler and John Carmi Parsons in 1996, this w... more Published in _Medieval Mothering_ edited by Bonnie Wheeler and John Carmi Parsons in 1996, this would become a chapter in Shadis, _Berenguela of Castile and Political Women in the High Middle Ages (2009)
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In her now classic 1968 essay, “A Study of Medieval Queenship: Capetian France, 987–1237,” Marion... more In her now classic 1968 essay, “A Study of Medieval Queenship: Capetian France, 987–1237,” Marion Facinger traced the dwindling presence of the queen of France in official documents after an apogee of power for Capetian royal wives, beginning with the reign of Adelaide of Maurienne (r. 1115–37). Facinger concluded that over time, French queens became private individuals, distanced from the king’s official curia. Queenly influence on government was possible only through a queen’s personal relations with her husband, which themselves were contained by his visits to her household, or an occasional invitation by the king to his wife or mother to offer advice, lend her support or, perhaps, serve as regent in his absence. Dowager queens were lords only in their personal domains and even there, they did not enjoy the military privileges usually pertaining to such authority. They spent their retirements in good works, occasionally receiving summons to court to offer an opinion or lend glamor to a state occasion.1
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Medieval Iberians practiced a form of concubinage known as barraganía – a potentially time-limite... more Medieval Iberians practiced a form of concubinage known as barraganía – a potentially time-limited, contractual arrangement between men and women who could not or would not marry. The agreement between Jaume I, ruler of the Crown of Aragon, and Aurembiaix, the Countess of Urgell, made at Agramunt in October 1228, has been cited as an example of a concubinage contract. This article examines their agreement as an example of a feudal convenientia, produced in the context of earlier convenientiae between Jaume's father and grandfather and Aurembiaix's parents, Count Ermengol VIII and Countess Elvira of Urgell, as well as convenientiae between Ermengol and Elvira themselves. I argue that the introduction of women – and gendered language surrounding them – into feudal protocols confuses historians who see sex when language is gendered, and have therefore understood Aurembiaix's agreement as primarily one of concubinage. Instead, I suggest it should be understood as a typical convenientia, one that solved a specific problem for the countess, who was desperate for heirs, and included the possibility that she might have them with King Jaume.
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Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, 2012
Sources do not particularly attend to women and Las Navas de Tolosa, neither their direct experie... more Sources do not particularly attend to women and Las Navas de Tolosa, neither their direct experience of the battle, nor the impact of the battle on their status in the aftermath – although they tell us more than we might expect. More significantly, current historiography of medieval women suggests that such watershed events do not fit with the continuities and changes of women's experience over time – an experience which varied not only according to gender but also according to class and religion in the high middle ages.
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History Compass, Jan 1, 2006
This essay outlines some main themes of gender and rulership in Iberian history from the early tw... more This essay outlines some main themes of gender and rulership in Iberian history from the early twelfth through the fifteenth centuries. Focusing mainly on queens, the essay also addresses the experience of other elite women and men, looking at the nexus of gender ideology and the practical requirements of monarchy.
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History, Jan 1, 2010
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Historian, Jan 1, 2009
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Edited Volumes by Miriam Shadis
This volume provides a series of new perspectives on the political, military, and religious histo... more This volume provides a series of new perspectives on the political, military, and religious history of the reign of Fernando III, king of Castile-León, from 1217-1252. The essays collected here address the conquest of al-Andalus and the policies of Fernando III, Christian-Muslim relations in the Peninsula, the creation and curation of royal networks of power, the role of women at the Castilian court, and the impact of religious change in Castile-León. Assembling an international group of eleven leading scholars on this period of Iberian history, this volume combines military and religious history with a variety of novel approaches and methodologies to ask new and exciting questions about the reign of Fernando III and his place in medieval European history.
Contributors are Martín Alvira, Carlos de Ayala Martínez, Janna Bianchini, Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo, Cristina Catalina, Francisco García Fitz, Francisco García-Serrano, Edward L. Holt, Kyle C. Lincoln, Miriam Shadis, and Teresa Witcombe.
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Historical Reflections Volume 43, Issue 1, Winter 2017: 77–92
doi: 10.3167/hrrh.2017.430107 ISSN 0315-7997 (Print), ISSN 1939-2419 (Online)
© Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques and Berghahn Books
Book Reviews by Miriam Shadis
Edited Volumes by Miriam Shadis
Contributors are Martín Alvira, Carlos de Ayala Martínez, Janna Bianchini, Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo, Cristina Catalina, Francisco García Fitz, Francisco García-Serrano, Edward L. Holt, Kyle C. Lincoln, Miriam Shadis, and Teresa Witcombe.
Historical Reflections Volume 43, Issue 1, Winter 2017: 77–92
doi: 10.3167/hrrh.2017.430107 ISSN 0315-7997 (Print), ISSN 1939-2419 (Online)
© Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques and Berghahn Books
Contributors are Martín Alvira, Carlos de Ayala Martínez, Janna Bianchini, Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo, Cristina Catalina, Francisco García Fitz, Francisco García-Serrano, Edward L. Holt, Kyle C. Lincoln, Miriam Shadis, and Teresa Witcombe.