Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 3506
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Freed , John B.
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  • Title: German Source Collections: The Archdiocese of Salzburg as a Case Study [The author uses printed source collections to study the women of the Pettau family, an extremely successful group of archiepiscopal ministerials, who served the archbishops of Salzburg as bondsmen. Freed concludes that the male family members married up in social status, while the females did not. He also found that women generally retained a good deal of control over thier property. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Medieval Women and the Sources of Medieval History.  Edited by Joel T. Rosenthal.  University of Georgia Press, 1990.  Pages 80 - 121.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Family History- Sources Marriage Ministeriales, Officials Noble women Pettau Family Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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  • Geographic Area: Germany
  • Century: 12-13
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  • Table: Three tables. Table One Genealogical chart of the Pettaus (pp. 88-89). Table Two Genealogical chart of the Königsbergs (p. 97). Table Three Genealogical chart of the Montpreis-Hörbergs (p. 102).
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  • Author's Affiliation: Illinois State University
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  • Year of Publication: 1990.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0820312142