Matilda, countess of the Perche (1171-1210): the expression of authority in name, style and seal
Matilda, countess of the Perche (1171-1210): the expression of authority in name, style and seal By Kathleen Thompson Tabularia, No. 3 (2003) Abstract: The…
Wu Zhao: China’s Only Woman Emperor
Wu Zhao: China’s Only Woman Emperor By N. Harry Rothschild Longman, ISBN: 978-0-321-39426-2 Wu Zhao, Woman Emperor of China is the account of the…
Wu Zhao’s Remarkable Aviary
Despite these fertile pre-conditions, the biological fact that Wu Zhao was a woman presented serious problems in her effort to assume the dragon throne. Even in these open times, the Confucian bureaucracy held great political sway just as patriarchal values, which held to the principle that “the male is venerated and the female is denigrated” (nan zun nu bei 男尊女卑), still exerted tremendous social influence.
Women, Suicide, and the Jury in Later Medieval England
Were medieval jurors more inclined to condemn female self‐killers to a suicide’s death because of the familiar figure of the mad, possessed woman?