Linda E Mitchell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3978147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda E Mitchell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda E |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitchell |
| SIGNATURE | MITCHELL L E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri–Kansas City |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aristocratic Marriage, Adultery and Divorce in the Fourteenth Century: The Life of Lucy de Thweng (1279-1347)
S ean L. F ield . Courting Sanctity: Holy Women and the Capetians
With this engaging and thought-provoking study of the political and spiritual intersections between the thirteenth-century Capetian royal family and contemporary Flemish and French female mystics, seers, and ascetics, Sean L. Field solidifies his standing as one of the leading scholars of women and sanctity in medieval France. This work, like his earlier work, is an extraordinarily comprehensive and erudite work of scholarship. Field approaches t…
The Dedicated Spiritual Life of Upper Rhine Noble Women. A Study and Translation of a Fourteenth-Century Spiritual Biography of Gertrude Rickeldey of Ortenberg and Heilke of Staufenberg, by Anneke B. …
S ara M c D ougall . Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, 800–1230
In Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, 800–1230, Sara McDougall presents an engaging, scrupulously researched, and compellingly argued monograph that challenges conventional historical notions about the impact of illegitimacy on the legal and practical ability of children to inherit estates and titles—including royal titles—from their parents. McDougall encapsulates her argument in the final sentence of the book: “The ‘horror’ of illegitim…
Give Me Back My Son!”
Medieval women, according to theorists whose positions were informed by standard classical tropes, suffered from an “excess” of emotion, which barred them from positions of political authority. Eleanor of Aquitaine—queen, countess, and mother of kings—belies this categorization. As a political actor, especially in defense of her own territories and as regent of her sons’ kingdom of England, Eleanor deployed emotional expressions strategically in …
Joan de Valence: The Life and Influence of a Thirteenth-Century Noblewoman
Noblewoman, heiress, widow, magnate, and sister-in-law to King Henry III, Joan de Valence survived and thrived through some of the most chaotic years of medieval English history. For the first time, Mitchell reaches into the archives to illuminate the story of this overlooked woman and, in turn, reveals new ways of thinking about medieval women
Women in Medieval Western European Culture
Historians Reflecting on History and Historical Writing, Number 1
Beyond Left and Right: New Perspectives on the Politics of the Third Republic
The articles in this issue all refl ect on the various ways in which political trends during the period of the Third Republic have been categorized by both historians of the period and the political actors themselves. Ranging in topic from political trends in the French military in the years after the Dreyfus Affair to the participation of women in the politics of the extreme Right, these pieces focus especially on the need to transcend categorie…
Telling Tales: Sources and Narration in Late Medieval England . Joel T. Rosenthal
Old Age in Late Medieval England. Joel T. Rosenthal
Bastard Feudalism. Michael Hicks
Eleanor of Castile: Queen and Society in Thirteenth-Century England. John Carmi Parsons
Law, Land, and Family: Aristocratic Inheritance in England, 1300 to 1800. Eileen Spring
Beyond Left and Right: New Perspectives on the Politics of the Third Republic
The articles in this issue all refl ect on the various ways in which political trends during the period of the Third Republic have been categorized by both historians of the period and the political actors themselves. Ranging in topic from political trends in the French military in the years after the Dreyfus Affair to the participation of women in the politics of the extreme Right, these pieces focus especially on the need to transcend categorie…
Law, Land, and Family: Aristocratic Inheritance in England, 1300 to 1800. Eileen Spring
Eleanor of Castile: Queen and Society in Thirteenth-Century England. John Carmi Parsons
Bastard Feudalism. Michael Hicks
Old Age in Late Medieval England. Joel T. Rosenthal
Telling Tales: Sources and Narration in Late Medieval England . Joel T. Rosenthal
Beyond Left and Right: New Perspectives on the Politics of the Third Republic
The articles in this issue all refl ect on the various ways in which political trends during the period of the Third Republic have been categorized by both historians of the period and the political actors themselves. Ranging in topic from political trends in the French military in the years after the Dreyfus Affair to the participation of women in the politics of the extreme Right, these pieces focus especially on the need to transcend categorie…
Historians Reflecting on History and Historical Writing, Number 1
Women in Medieval Western European Culture
Joan de Valence: The Life and Influence of a Thirteenth-Century Noblewoman
Noblewoman, heiress, widow, magnate, and sister-in-law to King Henry III, Joan de Valence survived and thrived through some of the most chaotic years of medieval English history. For the first time, Mitchell reaches into the archives to illuminate the story of this overlooked woman and, in turn, reveals new ways of thinking about medieval women
Give Me Back My Son!”
Medieval women, according to theorists whose positions were informed by standard classical tropes, suffered from an “excess” of emotion, which barred them from positions of political authority. Eleanor of Aquitaine—queen, countess, and mother of kings—belies this categorization. As a political actor, especially in defense of her own territories and as regent of her sons’ kingdom of England, Eleanor deployed emotional expressions strategically in …
The Dedicated Spiritual Life of Upper Rhine Noble Women. A Study and Translation of a Fourteenth-Century Spiritual Biography of Gertrude Rickeldey of Ortenberg and Heilke of Staufenberg, by Anneke B. …
S ara M c D ougall . Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, 800–1230
In Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, 800–1230, Sara McDougall presents an engaging, scrupulously researched, and compellingly argued monograph that challenges conventional historical notions about the impact of illegitimacy on the legal and practical ability of children to inherit estates and titles—including royal titles—from their parents. McDougall encapsulates her argument in the final sentence of the book: “The ‘horror’ of illegitim…
Aristocratic Marriage, Adultery and Divorce in the Fourteenth Century: The Life of Lucy de Thweng (1279-1347)
S ean L. F ield . Courting Sanctity: Holy Women and the Capetians
With this engaging and thought-provoking study of the political and spiritual intersections between the thirteenth-century Capetian royal family and contemporary Flemish and French female mystics, seers, and ascetics, Sean L. Field solidifies his standing as one of the leading scholars of women and sanctity in medieval France. This work, like his earlier work, is an extraordinarily comprehensive and erudite work of scholarship. Field approaches t…
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