Miriam Shadis
Biographic Data
| ID | 5202012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miriam Shadis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miriam |
| FAMILY NAME | Shadis |
| SIGNATURE | SHADIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Fruit of Her Hands
Unexceptional Women
The Personal and the Political in the Testaments of the Portuguese Royal Family (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries)
This article examines a series of wills created by members of the royal family of Portugal over three generations, from the mid-twelfth to the mid-thirteenth century. Wills served different functions depending on the political context of their makers: fundamentally pious documents, expressing hopes for salvation, they also worked to shape the political future of the realm. Above all, these wills demonstrate certain features of material life and t…
Received as a woman”
Medieval Iberians practiced a form of concubinage known as barraganía – a potentially time-limited, contractual arrangement between men and women who could not or would not marry. The agreement between Jaume I, ruler of the Crown of Aragon, and Aurembiaix, the Countess of Urgell, made at Agramunt in October 1228, has been cited as an example of a concubinage contract. This article examines their agreement as an example of a feudal convenientia, p…
Women and Las Navas de Tolosa
Sources do not particularly attend to women and Las Navas de Tolosa, neither their direct experience of the battle, nor the impact of the battle on their status in the aftermath – although they tell us more than we might expect. More significantly, current historiography of medieval women suggests that such watershed events do not fit with the continuities and changes of women's experience over time – an experience which varied not only according…
The Measure of Woman
Journal Article The Measure of Woman: Law and Female Identity in the Crown of Aragon Get access Kelleher Marie A.. The Measure of Woman: Law and Female Identity in the Crown of Aragon. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 232 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Miriam Shadis Miriam Shadis Ohio University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 52, Issue 4, October 2012, P…
Women, Gender, and Rulership in Romance Europe
This essay outlines some main themes of gender and rulership in Iberian history from the early twelfth through the fifteenth centuries. Focusing mainly on queens, the essay also addresses the experience of other elite women and men, looking at the nexus of gender ideology and the practical requirements of monarchy
Les vifs, les morts et le temps qui court
The Personal and the Political in the Testaments of the Portuguese Royal Family (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries)
This article examines a series of wills created by members of the royal family of Portugal over three generations, from the mid-twelfth to the mid-thirteenth century. Wills served different functions depending on the political context of their makers: fundamentally pious documents, expressing hopes for salvation, they also worked to shape the political future of the realm. Above all, these wills demonstrate certain features of material life and t…
Les vifs, les morts et le temps qui court
Women, Gender, and Rulership in Romance Europe
This essay outlines some main themes of gender and rulership in Iberian history from the early twelfth through the fifteenth centuries. Focusing mainly on queens, the essay also addresses the experience of other elite women and men, looking at the nexus of gender ideology and the practical requirements of monarchy
Women and Las Navas de Tolosa
Sources do not particularly attend to women and Las Navas de Tolosa, neither their direct experience of the battle, nor the impact of the battle on their status in the aftermath – although they tell us more than we might expect. More significantly, current historiography of medieval women suggests that such watershed events do not fit with the continuities and changes of women's experience over time – an experience which varied not only according…
The Measure of Woman
Journal Article The Measure of Woman: Law and Female Identity in the Crown of Aragon Get access Kelleher Marie A.. The Measure of Woman: Law and Female Identity in the Crown of Aragon. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 232 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Miriam Shadis Miriam Shadis Ohio University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 52, Issue 4, October 2012, P…
Received as a woman”
Medieval Iberians practiced a form of concubinage known as barraganía – a potentially time-limited, contractual arrangement between men and women who could not or would not marry. The agreement between Jaume I, ruler of the Crown of Aragon, and Aurembiaix, the Countess of Urgell, made at Agramunt in October 1228, has been cited as an example of a concubinage contract. This article examines their agreement as an example of a feudal convenientia, p…
The Personal and the Political in the Testaments of the Portuguese Royal Family (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries)
This article examines a series of wills created by members of the royal family of Portugal over three generations, from the mid-twelfth to the mid-thirteenth century. Wills served different functions depending on the political context of their makers: fundamentally pious documents, expressing hopes for salvation, they also worked to shape the political future of the realm. Above all, these wills demonstrate certain features of material life and t…
Unexceptional Women
The Fruit of Her Hands
History (7 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Medieval Iberian Studies (4 works) · Medieval Literature and History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Art (3 works)