Power in medieval society has traditionally been ascribed to
figures of public authority--violent knights and conflicting
sovereigns who altered the surface of civic life through the
exercise of law and force. The wives and consorts of these powerful
men have generally been viewed as decorative attendants, while
common women were presumed to have had no power or consequence.
Reassessing the conventional definition of power that has shaped
such portrayals, "Women and Power in the Middle Ages" reveals the
varied manifestations of female power in the medieval household and
community--from the cultural power wielded by the wives of Venetian
patriarchs to the economic power of English peasant women and the
religious power of female saints. Among the specific topics
addresses are Griselda's manipulation of silence as power in
Chaucer's "The Clerk's Tale"; the extensive networks of influence
devised by Lady Honor Lisle; and the role of medieval women book
owners as arbiters of lay piety and ambassadors of culture. In
every case, the essays seek to transcend simple polarities of
public and private, male and female, in order to provide a more
realistic analysis of the workings of power in feudal society.
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