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Alexandra
Locking
Author
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
"A New Senate of Women": Ecclesiastical Reform and the Reimagining of Female Secular Lordship, c. 1050-1125 CE
This study examines the impact of the eleventh-century ecclesiastical reform movement on ideologies and representations of female secular authority. The well-known reform movement redrew the boundaries between secular and ecclesiastical spheres across Europe and initiated an intellectual debate over conceptions of lay and religious rulership. Traditionally, scholars have seen the reform program as an oppressive force which sought with varying degrees of success to limit women’s participation in ecclesiastical affairs and to marginalize their presence in broader society. However, scholars have underestimated the significant presence of lay noblewomen in reform activities. This study locates women as key participants in the reform program, a surprising discovery given the strong associations made by many clerical supporters of reform between women and pollution, above all due to their sexuality. The dissertation takes a wide geographical focus, examining the impacts of the reform movement on female lordship across Latin Christendom in order to explore both similarities and differences in experience rather than search for a single model of female lordship. By focusing on textual representations of female agency and authority in contemporary narrative histories, letters, and hagiographical texts, the pages below demonstrate that the reform movement witnessed a period of creativity in the construction and representation of gendered secular authority, particularly in relation to the performance of power by laywomen. This study contributes to the growing scholarship focusing on the role of gender and women in religious and cultural history. Its main goal is to create a synthesis between studies of medieval lordship, church reform, and gender and women’s history.
Spring 2017
2017
Medieval history
church reform, medieval gender, medieval lordship, medieval narratives, medieval women
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
History
Marcus
Bull
Thesis advisor
Brett
Whalen
Thesis advisor
Robert
Babcock
Thesis advisor
Jessica
Boon
Thesis advisor
Flora
Cassen
Thesis advisor
text
Alexandra
Locking
Author
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
"A New Senate of Women": Ecclesiastical Reform and the Reimagining of Female Secular Lordship, c. 1050-1125 CE
This study examines the impact of the eleventh-century ecclesiastical reform movement on ideologies and representations of female secular authority. The well-known reform movement redrew the boundaries between secular and ecclesiastical spheres across Europe and initiated an intellectual debate over conceptions of lay and religious rulership. Traditionally, scholars have seen the reform program as an oppressive force which sought with varying degrees of success to limit women’s participation in ecclesiastical affairs and to marginalize their presence in broader society. However, scholars have underestimated the significant presence of lay noblewomen in reform activities. This study locates women as key participants in the reform program, a surprising discovery given the strong associations made by many clerical supporters of reform between women and pollution, above all due to their sexuality. The dissertation takes a wide geographical focus, examining the impacts of the reform movement on female lordship across Latin Christendom in order to explore both similarities and differences in experience rather than search for a single model of female lordship. By focusing on textual representations of female agency and authority in contemporary narrative histories, letters, and hagiographical texts, the pages below demonstrate that the reform movement witnessed a period of creativity in the construction and representation of gendered secular authority, particularly in relation to the performance of power by laywomen. This study contributes to the growing scholarship focusing on the role of gender and women in religious and cultural history. Its main goal is to create a synthesis between studies of medieval lordship, church reform, and gender and women’s history.
Spring 2017
2017
Medieval history
church reform
medieval gender
medieval lordship
medieval narratives
medieval women
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
History
Marcus
Bull
Thesis advisor
Brett
Whalen
Thesis advisor
Robert
Babcock
Thesis advisor
Jessica
Boon
Thesis advisor
Flora
Cassen
Thesis advisor
text
Alexandra
Locking
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
"A New Senate of Women": Ecclesiastical Reform and the Reimagining of Female
Secular Lordship, c. 1050-1125 CE
This study examines the impact of the eleventh-century ecclesiastical reform
movement on ideologies and representations of female secular authority. The well-known
reform movement redrew the boundaries between secular and ecclesiastical spheres across
Europe and initiated an intellectual debate over conceptions of lay and religious
rulership. Traditionally, scholars have seen the reform program as an oppressive force
which sought with varying degrees of success to limit women’s participation in
ecclesiastical affairs and to marginalize their presence in broader society. However,
scholars have underestimated the significant presence of lay noblewomen in reform
activities. This study locates women as key participants in the reform program, a
surprising discovery given the strong associations made by many clerical supporters of
reform between women and pollution, above all due to their sexuality. The dissertation
takes a wide geographical focus, examining the impacts of the reform movement on female
lordship across Latin Christendom in order to explore both similarities and differences in
experience rather than search for a single model of female lordship. By focusing on
textual representations of female agency and authority in contemporary narrative
histories, letters, and hagiographical texts, the pages below demonstrate that the reform
movement witnessed a period of creativity in the construction and representation of
gendered secular authority, particularly in relation to the performance of power by
laywomen. This study contributes to the growing scholarship focusing on the role of gender
and women in religious and cultural history. Its main goal is to create a synthesis
between studies of medieval lordship, church reform, and gender and women’s
history.
Spring 2017
2017
Medieval history
church reform medieval gender medieval lordship medieval
narratives medieval women
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting
institution
History
Marcus
Bull
Thesis advisor
Brett
Whalen
Thesis advisor
Robert
Babcock
Thesis advisor
Jessica
Boon
Thesis advisor
Flora
Cassen
Thesis advisor
text
Alexandra
Locking
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
"A New Senate of Women": Ecclesiastical Reform and the Reimagining of Female
Secular Lordship, c. 1050-1125 CE
This study examines the impact of the eleventh-century ecclesiastical reform
movement on ideologies and representations of female secular authority. The well-known
reform movement redrew the boundaries between secular and ecclesiastical spheres across
Europe and initiated an intellectual debate over conceptions of lay and religious
rulership. Traditionally, scholars have seen the reform program as an oppressive force
which sought with varying degrees of success to limit women’s participation in
ecclesiastical affairs and to marginalize their presence in broader society. However,
scholars have underestimated the significant presence of lay noblewomen in reform
activities. This study locates women as key participants in the reform program, a
surprising discovery given the strong associations made by many clerical supporters of
reform between women and pollution, above all due to their sexuality. The dissertation
takes a wide geographical focus, examining the impacts of the reform movement on female
lordship across Latin Christendom in order to explore both similarities and differences in
experience rather than search for a single model of female lordship. By focusing on
textual representations of female agency and authority in contemporary narrative
histories, letters, and hagiographical texts, the pages below demonstrate that the reform
movement witnessed a period of creativity in the construction and representation of
gendered secular authority, particularly in relation to the performance of power by
laywomen. This study contributes to the growing scholarship focusing on the role of gender
and women in religious and cultural history. Its main goal is to create a synthesis
between studies of medieval lordship, church reform, and gender and women’s
history.
Spring 2017
2017
Medieval history
church reform medieval gender medieval lordship medieval
narratives medieval women
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting
institution
History
Marcus
Bull
Thesis advisor
Brett
Whalen
Thesis advisor
Robert
Babcock
Thesis advisor
Jessica
Boon
Thesis advisor
Flora
Cassen
Thesis advisor
text
Alexandra
Locking
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
"A New Senate of Women": Ecclesiastical Reform and the Reimagining of Female Secular Lordship, c. 1050-1125 CE
This study examines the impact of the eleventh-century ecclesiastical reform movement on ideologies and representations of female secular authority. The well-known reform movement redrew the boundaries between secular and ecclesiastical spheres across Europe and initiated an intellectual debate over conceptions of lay and religious rulership. Traditionally, scholars have seen the reform program as an oppressive force which sought with varying degrees of success to limit women’s participation in ecclesiastical affairs and to marginalize their presence in broader society. However, scholars have underestimated the significant presence of lay noblewomen in reform activities. This study locates women as key participants in the reform program, a surprising discovery given the strong associations made by many clerical supporters of reform between women and pollution, above all due to their sexuality. The dissertation takes a wide geographical focus, examining the impacts of the reform movement on female lordship across Latin Christendom in order to explore both similarities and differences in experience rather than search for a single model of female lordship. By focusing on textual representations of female agency and authority in contemporary narrative histories, letters, and hagiographical texts, the pages below demonstrate that the reform movement witnessed a period of creativity in the construction and representation of gendered secular authority, particularly in relation to the performance of power by laywomen. This study contributes to the growing scholarship focusing on the role of gender and women in religious and cultural history. Its main goal is to create a synthesis between studies of medieval lordship, church reform, and gender and women’s history.
Spring 2017
2017
Medieval history
church reform medieval gender medieval lordship medieval narratives medieval women
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
History
Marcus
Bull
Thesis advisor
Brett
Whalen
Thesis advisor
Robert
Babcock
Thesis advisor
Jessica
Boon
Thesis advisor
Flora
Cassen
Thesis advisor
text
Alexandra
Locking
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
"A New Senate of Women": Ecclesiastical Reform and the Reimagining of Female Secular Lordship, c. 1050-1125 CE
This study examines the impact of the eleventh-century ecclesiastical reform movement on ideologies and representations of female secular authority. The well-known reform movement redrew the boundaries between secular and ecclesiastical spheres across Europe and initiated an intellectual debate over conceptions of lay and religious rulership. Traditionally, scholars have seen the reform program as an oppressive force which sought with varying degrees of success to limit women’s participation in ecclesiastical affairs and to marginalize their presence in broader society. However, scholars have underestimated the significant presence of lay noblewomen in reform activities. This study locates women as key participants in the reform program, a surprising discovery given the strong associations made by many clerical supporters of reform between women and pollution, above all due to their sexuality. The dissertation takes a wide geographical focus, examining the impacts of the reform movement on female lordship across Latin Christendom in order to explore both similarities and differences in experience rather than search for a single model of female lordship. By focusing on textual representations of female agency and authority in contemporary narrative histories, letters, and hagiographical texts, the pages below demonstrate that the reform movement witnessed a period of creativity in the construction and representation of gendered secular authority, particularly in relation to the performance of power by laywomen. This study contributes to the growing scholarship focusing on the role of gender and women in religious and cultural history. Its main goal is to create a synthesis between studies of medieval lordship, church reform, and gender and women’s history.
Spring 2017
2017
Medieval history
Church reform
Medieval gender
Medieval lordship
Medieval narratives
Medieval women
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
History
Marcus
Bull
Thesis advisor
Brett
Whalen
Thesis advisor
Robert
Babcock
Thesis advisor
Jessica
Boon
Thesis advisor
Flora
Cassen
Thesis advisor
text
Alexandra
Locking
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
"A New Senate of Women": Ecclesiastical Reform and the Reimagining of Female Secular Lordship, c. 1050-1125 CE
This study examines the impact of the eleventh-century ecclesiastical reform movement on ideologies and representations of female secular authority. The well-known reform movement redrew the boundaries between secular and ecclesiastical spheres across Europe and initiated an intellectual debate over conceptions of lay and religious rulership. Traditionally, scholars have seen the reform program as an oppressive force which sought with varying degrees of success to limit women’s participation in ecclesiastical affairs and to marginalize their presence in broader society. However, scholars have underestimated the significant presence of lay noblewomen in reform activities. This study locates women as key participants in the reform program, a surprising discovery given the strong associations made by many clerical supporters of reform between women and pollution, above all due to their sexuality. The dissertation takes a wide geographical focus, examining the impacts of the reform movement on female lordship across Latin Christendom in order to explore both similarities and differences in experience rather than search for a single model of female lordship. By focusing on textual representations of female agency and authority in contemporary narrative histories, letters, and hagiographical texts, the pages below demonstrate that the reform movement witnessed a period of creativity in the construction and representation of gendered secular authority, particularly in relation to the performance of power by laywomen. This study contributes to the growing scholarship focusing on the role of gender and women in religious and cultural history. Its main goal is to create a synthesis between studies of medieval lordship, church reform, and gender and women’s history.
2017-05
2017
Medieval history
Church reform
Medieval gender
Medieval lordship
Medieval narratives
Medieval women
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
History
Marcus
Bull
Thesis advisor
Brett
Whalen
Thesis advisor
Robert
Babcock
Thesis advisor
Jessica
Boon
Thesis advisor
Flora
Cassen
Thesis advisor
text
Alexandra
Locking
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
"A New Senate of Women": Ecclesiastical Reform and the Reimagining of Female Secular Lordship, c. 1050-1125 CE
This study examines the impact of the eleventh-century ecclesiastical reform movement on ideologies and representations of female secular authority. The well-known reform movement redrew the boundaries between secular and ecclesiastical spheres across Europe and initiated an intellectual debate over conceptions of lay and religious rulership. Traditionally, scholars have seen the reform program as an oppressive force which sought with varying degrees of success to limit women’s participation in ecclesiastical affairs and to marginalize their presence in broader society. However, scholars have underestimated the significant presence of lay noblewomen in reform activities. This study locates women as key participants in the reform program, a surprising discovery given the strong associations made by many clerical supporters of reform between women and pollution, above all due to their sexuality. The dissertation takes a wide geographical focus, examining the impacts of the reform movement on female lordship across Latin Christendom in order to explore both similarities and differences in experience rather than search for a single model of female lordship. By focusing on textual representations of female agency and authority in contemporary narrative histories, letters, and hagiographical texts, the pages below demonstrate that the reform movement witnessed a period of creativity in the construction and representation of gendered secular authority, particularly in relation to the performance of power by laywomen. This study contributes to the growing scholarship focusing on the role of gender and women in religious and cultural history. Its main goal is to create a synthesis between studies of medieval lordship, church reform, and gender and women’s history.
2017
Medieval history
Church reform
Medieval gender
Medieval lordship
Medieval narratives
Medieval women
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
History
Marcus
Bull
Thesis advisor
Brett
Whalen
Thesis advisor
Robert
Babcock
Thesis advisor
Jessica
Boon
Thesis advisor
Flora
Cassen
Thesis advisor
text
2017-05
Alexandra
Locking
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
"A New Senate of Women": Ecclesiastical Reform and the Reimagining of Female Secular Lordship, c. 1050-1125 CE
This study examines the impact of the eleventh-century ecclesiastical reform movement on ideologies and representations of female secular authority. The well-known reform movement redrew the boundaries between secular and ecclesiastical spheres across Europe and initiated an intellectual debate over conceptions of lay and religious rulership. Traditionally, scholars have seen the reform program as an oppressive force which sought with varying degrees of success to limit women’s participation in ecclesiastical affairs and to marginalize their presence in broader society. However, scholars have underestimated the significant presence of lay noblewomen in reform activities. This study locates women as key participants in the reform program, a surprising discovery given the strong associations made by many clerical supporters of reform between women and pollution, above all due to their sexuality. The dissertation takes a wide geographical focus, examining the impacts of the reform movement on female lordship across Latin Christendom in order to explore both similarities and differences in experience rather than search for a single model of female lordship. By focusing on textual representations of female agency and authority in contemporary narrative histories, letters, and hagiographical texts, the pages below demonstrate that the reform movement witnessed a period of creativity in the construction and representation of gendered secular authority, particularly in relation to the performance of power by laywomen. This study contributes to the growing scholarship focusing on the role of gender and women in religious and cultural history. Its main goal is to create a synthesis between studies of medieval lordship, church reform, and gender and women’s history.
2017
Medieval history
Church reform
Medieval gender
Medieval lordship
Medieval narratives
Medieval women
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
History
Marcus
Bull
Thesis advisor
Brett
Whalen
Thesis advisor
Robert
Babcock
Thesis advisor
Jessica
Boon
Thesis advisor
Flora
Cassen
Thesis advisor
text
2017-05
Alexandra
Locking
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
"A New Senate of Women": Ecclesiastical Reform and the Reimagining of Female Secular Lordship, c. 1050-1125 CE
This study examines the impact of the eleventh-century ecclesiastical reform movement on ideologies and representations of female secular authority. The well-known reform movement redrew the boundaries between secular and ecclesiastical spheres across Europe and initiated an intellectual debate over conceptions of lay and religious rulership. Traditionally, scholars have seen the reform program as an oppressive force which sought with varying degrees of success to limit women’s participation in ecclesiastical affairs and to marginalize their presence in broader society. However, scholars have underestimated the significant presence of lay noblewomen in reform activities. This study locates women as key participants in the reform program, a surprising discovery given the strong associations made by many clerical supporters of reform between women and pollution, above all due to their sexuality. The dissertation takes a wide geographical focus, examining the impacts of the reform movement on female lordship across Latin Christendom in order to explore both similarities and differences in experience rather than search for a single model of female lordship. By focusing on textual representations of female agency and authority in contemporary narrative histories, letters, and hagiographical texts, the pages below demonstrate that the reform movement witnessed a period of creativity in the construction and representation of gendered secular authority, particularly in relation to the performance of power by laywomen. This study contributes to the growing scholarship focusing on the role of gender and women in religious and cultural history. Its main goal is to create a synthesis between studies of medieval lordship, church reform, and gender and women’s history.
2017
Medieval history
Church reform
Medieval gender
Medieval lordship
Medieval narratives
Medieval women
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
History
Marcus
Bull
Thesis advisor
Brett
Whalen
Thesis advisor
Robert
Babcock
Thesis advisor
Jessica
Boon
Thesis advisor
Flora
Cassen
Thesis advisor
text
2017-05
Alexandra
Locking
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
"A New Senate of Women": Ecclesiastical Reform and the Reimagining of Female Secular Lordship, c. 1050-1125 CE
This study examines the impact of the eleventh-century ecclesiastical reform movement on ideologies and representations of female secular authority. The well-known reform movement redrew the boundaries between secular and ecclesiastical spheres across Europe and initiated an intellectual debate over conceptions of lay and religious rulership. Traditionally, scholars have seen the reform program as an oppressive force which sought with varying degrees of success to limit women’s participation in ecclesiastical affairs and to marginalize their presence in broader society. However, scholars have underestimated the significant presence of lay noblewomen in reform activities. This study locates women as key participants in the reform program, a surprising discovery given the strong associations made by many clerical supporters of reform between women and pollution, above all due to their sexuality. The dissertation takes a wide geographical focus, examining the impacts of the reform movement on female lordship across Latin Christendom in order to explore both similarities and differences in experience rather than search for a single model of female lordship. By focusing on textual representations of female agency and authority in contemporary narrative histories, letters, and hagiographical texts, the pages below demonstrate that the reform movement witnessed a period of creativity in the construction and representation of gendered secular authority, particularly in relation to the performance of power by laywomen. This study contributes to the growing scholarship focusing on the role of gender and women in religious and cultural history. Its main goal is to create a synthesis between studies of medieval lordship, church reform, and gender and women’s history.
2017
Medieval history
Church reform
Medieval gender
Medieval lordship
Medieval narratives
Medieval women
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
History
Marcus
Bull
Thesis advisor
Brett
Whalen
Thesis advisor
Robert
Babcock
Thesis advisor
Jessica
Boon
Thesis advisor
Flora
Cassen
Thesis advisor
text
2017-05
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Degree granting institution
Alexandra
Locking
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
"A New Senate of Women": Ecclesiastical Reform and the Reimagining of Female Secular Lordship, c. 1050-1125 CE
This study examines the impact of the eleventh-century ecclesiastical reform movement on ideologies and representations of female secular authority. The well-known reform movement redrew the boundaries between secular and ecclesiastical spheres across Europe and initiated an intellectual debate over conceptions of lay and religious rulership. Traditionally, scholars have seen the reform program as an oppressive force which sought with varying degrees of success to limit women’s participation in ecclesiastical affairs and to marginalize their presence in broader society. However, scholars have underestimated the significant presence of lay noblewomen in reform activities. This study locates women as key participants in the reform program, a surprising discovery given the strong associations made by many clerical supporters of reform between women and pollution, above all due to their sexuality. The dissertation takes a wide geographical focus, examining the impacts of the reform movement on female lordship across Latin Christendom in order to explore both similarities and differences in experience rather than search for a single model of female lordship. By focusing on textual representations of female agency and authority in contemporary narrative histories, letters, and hagiographical texts, the pages below demonstrate that the reform movement witnessed a period of creativity in the construction and representation of gendered secular authority, particularly in relation to the performance of power by laywomen. This study contributes to the growing scholarship focusing on the role of gender and women in religious and cultural history. Its main goal is to create a synthesis between studies of medieval lordship, church reform, and gender and women’s history.
2017
Medieval history
Church reform
Medieval gender
Medieval lordship
Medieval narratives
Medieval women
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
History
Marcus
Bull
Thesis advisor
Brett
Whalen
Thesis advisor
Robert
Babcock
Thesis advisor
Jessica
Boon
Thesis advisor
Flora
Cassen
Thesis advisor
text
2017-05
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Degree granting institution
Alexandra
Locking
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
"A New Senate of Women": Ecclesiastical Reform and the Reimagining of Female Secular Lordship, c. 1050-1125 CE
This study examines the impact of the eleventh-century ecclesiastical reform movement on ideologies and representations of female secular authority. The well-known reform movement redrew the boundaries between secular and ecclesiastical spheres across Europe and initiated an intellectual debate over conceptions of lay and religious rulership. Traditionally, scholars have seen the reform program as an oppressive force which sought with varying degrees of success to limit women’s participation in ecclesiastical affairs and to marginalize their presence in broader society. However, scholars have underestimated the significant presence of lay noblewomen in reform activities. This study locates women as key participants in the reform program, a surprising discovery given the strong associations made by many clerical supporters of reform between women and pollution, above all due to their sexuality. The dissertation takes a wide geographical focus, examining the impacts of the reform movement on female lordship across Latin Christendom in order to explore both similarities and differences in experience rather than search for a single model of female lordship. By focusing on textual representations of female agency and authority in contemporary narrative histories, letters, and hagiographical texts, the pages below demonstrate that the reform movement witnessed a period of creativity in the construction and representation of gendered secular authority, particularly in relation to the performance of power by laywomen. This study contributes to the growing scholarship focusing on the role of gender and women in religious and cultural history. Its main goal is to create a synthesis between studies of medieval lordship, church reform, and gender and women’s history.
2017
Medieval history
Church reform
Medieval gender
Medieval lordship
Medieval narratives
Medieval women
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
History
Marcus
Bull
Thesis advisor
Brett
Whalen
Thesis advisor
Robert
Babcock
Thesis advisor
Jessica
Boon
Thesis advisor
Flora
Cassen
Thesis advisor
text
2017-05
Alexandra
Locking
Creator
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
"A New Senate of Women": Ecclesiastical Reform and the Reimagining of Female Secular Lordship, c. 1050-1125 CE
This study examines the impact of the eleventh-century ecclesiastical reform movement on ideologies and representations of female secular authority. The well-known reform movement redrew the boundaries between secular and ecclesiastical spheres across Europe and initiated an intellectual debate over conceptions of lay and religious rulership. Traditionally, scholars have seen the reform program as an oppressive force which sought with varying degrees of success to limit women’s participation in ecclesiastical affairs and to marginalize their presence in broader society. However, scholars have underestimated the significant presence of lay noblewomen in reform activities. This study locates women as key participants in the reform program, a surprising discovery given the strong associations made by many clerical supporters of reform between women and pollution, above all due to their sexuality. The dissertation takes a wide geographical focus, examining the impacts of the reform movement on female lordship across Latin Christendom in order to explore both similarities and differences in experience rather than search for a single model of female lordship. By focusing on textual representations of female agency and authority in contemporary narrative histories, letters, and hagiographical texts, the pages below demonstrate that the reform movement witnessed a period of creativity in the construction and representation of gendered secular authority, particularly in relation to the performance of power by laywomen. This study contributes to the growing scholarship focusing on the role of gender and women in religious and cultural history. Its main goal is to create a synthesis between studies of medieval lordship, church reform, and gender and women’s history.
2017
Medieval history
Church reform
Medieval gender
Medieval lordship
Medieval narratives
Medieval women
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
Marcus
Bull
Thesis advisor
Brett
Whalen
Thesis advisor
Robert
Babcock
Thesis advisor
Jessica
Boon
Thesis advisor
Flora
Cassen
Thesis advisor
text
2017-05
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