Out of Love for My Kin : Aristocratic Family Life in the Lands of the Loire, 1000-1200 -- Electronic book text (English Language Edition)

Similarly, aristocratic women, long imagined to have been excluded from power, exerted a strong influence on family life, as Livingstone makes clear in her gender-conscious analysis of dowries, the age of men and women at marriage, lordship responsibilities of women, and contestations over property.