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This text asks whether a female tradition of power might have existed distinct from the male one and how such a tradition might have been transmitted. It shows how practices and institutions which ostensibly enabled women in the Middle Ages could sometimes erode their authority as well.Erler, Mary Carpenter is the author of 'Gendering the Master Narrative Women and Power in the Middle Ages' with ISBN 9780801441127 and ISBN 0801441129.
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