Publication Type

Book Review

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

7-2009

Abstract

The Military Leadership of Matilda of Canossa is an important and welcome book.Although Matilda is readily acknowledged as a pivotal political figure of Italian,reform, and indeed even papal history in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries,she continues to be a rather poorly studied individual, especially in English-languagescholarship, despite the extensive range of primary sources for her life, including manydiplomata, which have recently been critically re-edited. At the same time, almost noattention has been given to Matilda’s military leadership, even though she was credited(and also censured) for her campaigns on behalf of the reforming papacy. Impeccablyresearched and cogently argued, this new book combines the acumen both of a militaryand a gender historian and sets an impressively high standard in terms of its contentand exposition.

Discipline

European History | Women's History

Research Areas

Integrative Research Areas

Areas of Excellence

Sustainability

Publication

Gender and History

Volume

21

Issue

2

First Page

435

Last Page

437

ISSN

0953-5233

Identifier

10.1111/j.1468-0424.2009.01557_6.x

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0424.2009.01557_6.x

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