Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the Middle Ages

By examining a significant corpus of secular and monastic charters, this study provides a more complex understanding of the role of religious patronage in medieval society, specifically offering a glimpse of the experience of female rulers in a period when actions were often constrained and obscured by gender bias. [From the publisher] ; https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/history_books/1038/thumbnail.jpg