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T1 DOMINA: poder en femenino en el Reino de León (s. XI-XII).
A1 Tollendal Prudente, Luisa
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Escuela de Doctorado
K1 Mujeres - Historia - Edad Media
K1 Women
K1 Mujeres
K1 Aristocracy
K1 Aristocracia
K1 5504.03 Historia Medieval
AB This work aims to highlight different aspects of the correlation between women, femininity and the royal and high-aristocratic power in the kingdom of León during the Central Middle Ages. From a perspective that combines Women and Gender History, passing by anthropological considerations, the investigation focused on how queens, princesses and women belonging to the greatest aristocratic families were implicated in the power reproductions strategies of their kin groups. This study relied on the analysis of diplomatic sources from the main religious institutions of the leonese territory, produced between the 11th and the 12th centuries, which better allowed access to the historical agents studied. The starting point were interrogations about the gender implications of the position held by Queen Urraca I of León and Castile (1109-1126), who occupied the throne in the same way that her masculine ancestors had done. From that first idea, the study revealed a myriad of ways in which high-class women related to and held power. The queen’s contemporaries, or who lived in immediately previous or posterior times, ad were her relatives (such as her grandmother queens Sancha I, her aunts the princesses Urraca de Zamora and Elvira de Toro, her sisters Elvira and Teresa, her daughter Sancha Raimúndez, among other queens and princesses) or the ladies who configured the female elite of the kingdom, whose names are less known; they all related to the dominium of their social status. They were implied in the territorial and political projection of their kin, and they even had their own power positions. The assignment of the power portions seems to have been constitutive of the social-political and cultural system that prevailed in that period, founded on feudal and patriarchal mindsets. The reason of this phenomenon was investigated, through the matrimonial and patrimonial strategies, kinship, the transmission of assets and power through women, the feminine participation in royal power (as the infantaticum and the possibility of women’s access to the throne), the lordly attributions to high-aristocratic and royal women and the social-dependency networks that connected queens, princesses and countesses, and in which they played a fundamental role for the establishment of alliances and in the social reproduction of the elites.
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/61857
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/61857
LA spa
NO Escuela de Doctorado
DS UVaDOC
RD 14-oct-2024