Her father's daughter : gender, power, and religion in the early Spanish kingdoms /

"Considers a group of royal women in the early medieval kingdoms of the Asturias and of León-Castilla; their lives say a great deal about structures of power and the roles of gender and religion within the early Iberian kingdoms. Pick examines these women, all daughters of kings, as members of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pick, Lucy K., 1966- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press 2017.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt1w1vjpt
Table of Contents:
  • Visigothic inheritance, Asturian monarchy
  • Virgins and martyrs
  • Networks of property, networks of power
  • Memory, gift, and death.