Rene Tovar

Eastern Illinois University, History, Graduate Student

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As a graduate student writing a thesis, my research focuses on agency and feminist scholarship on elite twelfth century women of power, specifically that of Heloise, Hildegard of Bingen, and Eleanor of Aquitaine. I also provide a minor focus on feudal Japan and early Japan, in which I focus primarily on the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Meiji Restoration.

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Union College, Barbourville

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Texas A&M University

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Monash University

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University of Toronto

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Bath Spa University

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The Australian National University

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Point Park University

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A Woman of Influence in 12th Century Christendom: the Case of St. Hildegard of Bingen

In a path breaking essay published in 1926, Eileen Powers argued that while males dominated voice... more In a path breaking essay published in 1926, Eileen Powers argued that while males dominated voices of both the church and the aristocracy during the Middle Ages, and typically drowned out the voices, choices, and rights of most women, they could not wholly submerge all together the freedoms of women, especially for the few women with influence and power.2 This is noticeably true during the High Middle Ages (the eleventh and twelfth centuries). However, there was still an obvious lack of freedoms for women at the time, even for those who wielded power. Social historian Georges Duby notes, “early medieval aristocratic families had been relatively egalitarian, but this changed from the eleventh century onwards, when women’s options narrowed, thanks to the growing importance of patrimonial property, primogeniture, and public office.”3 Duby attributes this growth in patrimonial property rights and primogeniture to men fearing women, or more specifically, the evil nature of women. Women w...

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