Authority, Gender and Space in the Anglo-Norman World, 900-1200
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232 Pages

24 x 17 cm

2 colour, 1 b/w, 74 line illus.

Series: Gender in the Middle Ages

Series Vol. Number: 14

Imprint: Boydell Press

Authority, Gender and Space in the Anglo-Norman World, 900-1200

by Katherine Weikert

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SHORTLISTED for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Hitchcock Medallion. A ground-breaking interdisciplinary approach to the medieval manor pre- and post-Conquest.


SHORTLISTED for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Hitchcock Medallion.
Medieval manors have long been the subject of academic study, though the ways in which these houses reflected and shaped - and were shaped by - their occupants to express social authority have not yet been fully explored. This book undertakes a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary examination of them, aiming to provide a fuller account of how concepts of space and domestic place were understood, represented, and used by their occupants in England and Normandy from c. 900 to c. 1200, and how this illuminates aspects of gender and authority in the period. Blending approaches from archaeology and history, it uses evidence from Anglo-Saxon wills, standing and excavated manorial sites in England and Normandy, and a variety of written texts from vitae to history to poetry, in order to delve into, deconstruct and reconstruct gendered notions of authority in the period. This book ultimately challenges ideas of gendered objects and places through the medieval construction of authoritative personae, and the use and representation of medieval manors, focusing on the household as a place and space of performance in the age of the Norman Conquest.
Introduction: Whys and Wherefores
Chapter One: Acting with Objects
Chapter Two: Experiencing Spaces I - People and Privacy
Chapter Three: Experiencing Spaces II - Buildings and Spaces
Chapter Four: Writing Places
Conclusions: The Curated Space

KATHERINE WEIKERT is Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval History at the University of Winchester.

"This work succeeds in proving that the wealthy showed off their abundance and power through the objects they collected and the spaces where they and their objects were displayed. It is clearly and often cleverly written. [...] It neatly confirms the importance of interdisciplinary works and should easily find a home with both historians and archaeologists." SPECULUM
"Fascinating and illuminating." FACHRS NEWSLETTER

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Title Details

232 Pages

2.4 x 1.7 cm

2 colour, 1 b/w, 74 line illus.

Series: Gender in the Middle Ages

Series Vol. Number: 14

Imprint: Boydell Press