FRENCH RULING ELITE AND GENDER IN THE MIDDLE AGES: TO THE ORIGIN OF THE GENDER CODE OF THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
The article is devoted to the attempt of reconstruction of origins of gender behavior of the French ruling elite of the Early Modern period. On the grounds of the materials saved up in modern medievalism, the author points out a number of the significant moments connected with matrimonial praxis in the elite’s sphere, the social status of gender and their resources of power, behavior of the rulers and their environments in private sphere.
Keywords: modern medievalism, France in the Middle Ages, ruling elite, gender attitudes, symbolical «capitals», behavioral installations
Issue: 9, 2010
Series of issue: Issue 9
Rubric: International History
Pages: 76 — 82
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