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The Patronage Power of Early Modern French Noblewomen*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Sharon Kettering
Sharon Kettering
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Montgomery College
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It has been suggested that the political and economic power of Renaissance noblewomen declined significantlyfrom what it had been during the heyday of feudalism, and that this decline was caused by the expansion of royalpower and the growth of national monarchies, the development of centralization and the bureaucratization of government – in other words the creation of formal, male-dominated institutions to which women could not belong. Joann McNamara and Suzanne Wemple have written, ‘However, with the growth of a more structured society, where church and state aimed at centralized control, women of the high and late middle ages (1100–1500) found their rights and role increasingly curtailed and their ambitions frustrated. Women who held the most influential positions were the first to suffer from these restrictions.’

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The Historical Journal , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , December 1989 , pp. 817 - 841
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