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| Type of paper: | Essay |
| Subject area: | American History |
| Academic level: | College |
| Style: | APA |
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| Author: | Arlean Foster |
| Date submitted: | 2008-11-22 01:13:15 |
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Women in medieval society : Eleanor of Aquitaine and her role in politics In the male-dominated society of the medieval times , most women had no choice but to answer to the dictates of the men around them , from their decisions , to their actions , to the roles they had to play . A woman was always under the guardianship of a man - from her birth , her life is overseen by her father until she marries , at which point her husband then has control over her . As part of her dowry , land was attached to the bride . Because of this , and due to the feudal system of the era , the woman was considered to be a valuable commodity if only for the land that could be bartered between the men . Most marriages of convenience were negotiated between the woman 's male guardian and the groom , and these negotiations were comprised mostly of the land that was to pass between the two families . And so peasant women who had no land usually had free choice in marriages , whereas upper-class women and their holdings were deemed too valuable to simply , and seemingly carelessly , give away through marriages that considered the sentiments of the brides - sentiments which , the men assumed , were grossly naive and uninformed . Because of this , the roles that women held during the time were those as tools in politics , used by men for their own purposes . Women became items of trade , intercessors for feuds and unions , and pawns in the political games of the men who had control over them . A woman could own her own lands and properties , through either trade or inheritance , but she was always answering to the men in her life - a father , or a husband , or the closest male guardian (Scheid Toon . But there were women who used cunning and resourcefulness to transcend the stark , business-like nature of their marriages . There were women who found themselves ``married to young , weak , ignorant , inexperienced , absent , or tolerant husbands ' and were thus able to take charge of their spouses ' properties , and consequently , their politics (Scheid Toon . One such woman was Eleanor of Aquitaine , who deeply involved herself in politics , although she often , quite predictably , found herself at odds with the men in her life , most especially with her husband (s . She was queen consort of France from 1137 to 1152 and was the queen consort of England from 1154 to 1204 (Microsoft Corporation . She married Louis VII of France in 1137 , the same year she inherited the duchy of Aquitaine from her father , properties that , with any other woman , would have wound up in the complete control of her husband . Eleanor displayed unusual character when she went with her husband on the Second Crusade to the Holy Land , although there rumors arose that she committed adultery while with him there . The scandal , and the fact that she gave him two daughters and no male heirs , resulted in the annulment of their marriage , and they gave the pretext of blood kinship between her... |
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