English aristocratic women, 1450-1550 : marriage and family, property and careers

著者

• Harris, Barbara J. (Barbara Jean)

書誌事項

English aristocratic women, 1450-1550 : marriage and family, property and careers

Barbara J. Harris

Oxford University Press, 2002

• : pbk.

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

ISBN 9780195056204

内容説明

English Aristocratic Women combines a collective portrait of aristocratic women with an analysis of the particular, class-specific form of patriarchy and gender relations that flourished among the upper classes in Yorkist and early Tudor England. The first book on the subject based on extensive archival research, it examines the apparent contradiction between the patriarchal institutions that shaped women's lives and the wide range of their activities, control of resources, and power over themselves and members of their families. It demonstrates that the roles of aristocratic wives, mothers, and wideows constituted careers for women that had as much public and political significance and were as crucial for the survival and prosperity of their families and class as the careers of their husbands. They managed their families' property and households; arranged the marriages and careers of their children; created, sustained, and exploited the client-patron relationships that were an essential element in politics at the regional and national levels and in the power of individual families; and, finally, managed the transmission and distribution of property from one generation to another, since most wives outlive their husbands. For women from the inner circle of court families, careers at court expanded and supported these roles. As in all careers, aristocratic women gained prestige, authority, power, and financial rewards for their activities. Recognising the full significance of aristocratic women's careers revises our understanding of Yorkist and early Tudor politics. In addition, the centrality of their roles means that reconstructing their activities creates a vivid picture of every aspect of aristocratic domestic, familial, economic, and political life.

目次

• Introduction
• 1. Structures of Patriarchy
• 2. Daughters: Wives in the Making
• 3. The Arrangment of Marriage
• 4. Wives: Parnership and Patriarchy
• 5. Single Women and Compulsory Marriage
• 6. Motherhood: Bearing and Promoting the Next Generation
• 7. Widows: Women of Property and Custodians of the Family's Future
• 8. Beyond the Household: Family and Friends, Patronage and Power
• 9. Their Brilliant Careers: Aristocratic Women at the Yorkist and Early Tudor Court
• Conclusion
• Glossary
• Abbreviations
• Bibliography

巻冊次

: pbk. ISBN 9780195151282

内容説明

Portraits of aristocratic women from the Yorkist and Tudor periods reveal elaborately clothed and bejeweled nobility, exemplars of their families' wealth. Unlike their male counterparts, their sitters have not been judged for their professional accomplishments. In this groundbreaking study, Barbara J. Harris argues that the roles of aristocratic wives, mothers, and widows constituted careers for women that had as much public and political significance and were as crucial for the survival and prosperity of their families and class as their husband's careers. Women, Harris demonstrates, were trained from an early age to manage their families' property and households; arrange the marriages and careers of their children; create, sustain, and exploit the client-patron relationships that were an essential element in politics at the regional and national levels; and, finally, manage the transmission and distribution of property from one generation to another, since most wives outlived their husbands. English Aristocratic Women unveils the lives of noblewomen whose historical influence has previously been dismissed, as well as those who became favourites at the court of Henry VIII. Through extensive archival research of documents belonging to more than twelve hundred families, Harris paints a collective portrait of upper-class women of this period. By recognising the full significance of the aristocratic women's careers, this book reinterprets the politics and gender relations of early modern England. Barbara J. Harris is Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her previous works include Edward Stafford, Third Duke of Buckingham, 1478-1521.

目次

• Introduction
• 1. Structures of Patriarchy
• 2. Daughters: Wives in the Making
• 3. The Arrangment of Marriage
• 4. Wives: Parnership and Patriarchy
• 5. Single Women and Compulsory Marriage
• 6. Motherhood: Bearing and Promoting the Next Generation
• 7. Widows: Women of Property and Custodians of the Family's Future
• 8. Beyond the Household: Family and Friends, Patronage and Power
• 9. Their Brilliant Careers: Aristocratic Women at the Yorkist and Early Tudor Court
• Conclusion
• Glossary
• Abbreviations
• Bibliography

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA5925504X
• ISBN:
  • 0195056205
  • 0195151283
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Oxford
• ページ数/冊数: xiv, 346 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm.
• 分類:
  • DC21 : 305.4209420902
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Women -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500
  • LCSH : Women -- England -- History -- 16th century
  • LCSH : Aristocracy (Social class) -- England -- History -- To 1500
  • LCSH : Aristocracy (Social class) -- England -- History -- 16th century