Catherine Hanley (2)
Autore di Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior
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- Opere
- 4
- Utenti
- 193
- Popolarità
- #113,337
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 18
Marjorie Chibnall's The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English was the first full-length study of Matilda, produced in the early 1990s, and it still has much to recommend it. However, Catherine Hanley's Matilda has the benefit of incorporating the insights of some 30 years of subsequent scholarship on women's history and queenship studies, and Hanley also writes clearly and accessibly for general audiences. I particularly liked her habit of pausing every so often to remind the reader of who was who among the plethora of Matildas and Williams.
Inasmuch as one can in a biography of a medieval figure, Hanley sketches a Matilda who is both more appealing and more convincing than the general stereotypes. I do have a number of question marks against some of Hanley's conclusions about medieval gender and power, and some things I would have liked to see more of. Matilda's patronage of the church, for instance, is only glanced on here but it was an important part of her exercise of authority—I know less sexy than battles and escapes, but still crucial to getting as rounded a picture of her as possible. But those are of course differences of interpretation and emphasis, and those and indeed the book as a whole would be excellent to use in an undergraduate classroom.… (altro)