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Power in medieval society has traditionally been ascribed to figures of public authority--violent knights and conflicting sovereigns who altered the surface of

A new economy of power relations: female agency in the middle ages / Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski -- Women and power through the family revisited / Jo A

An accessible and clear snapshot of the life and work of women in medieval times from the nunnery to the town to the castle.

Women's networks – their relations with other women, men, objects and place – were a source of power in various European and neighbouring regions throughout

For decades, medieval scholarship has been dominated by the paradigm that women who wielded power after c. 1100 were exceptions to the “rule” of female excl