Women at Canossa. The role of royal and aristocratic women in the reconciliation between Pope Gregory VII and Henry IV of Germany

Women at Canossa. The role of royal and aristocratic women in the reconciliation between Pope Gregory VII and Henry IV of Germany

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Modern historians rarely mention the presence of royal and aristocratic women at Canossa in January 1077.Yet contemporaries emphasised the important roles berness white sneakers played by several women, including Matilda of Tuscany, Adelaide of Turin, Empress Agnes and Queen Bertha.This paper seeks to re-appraise royal and read more aristocratic women’s actions at Canossa in the light of gender studies, and also of recent scholarship on political diplomacy and mediation, in order to emphasise their centrality to political events in the eleventh century.