Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir
Autor de Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World
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Yet such a glance would also show a slightly puzzling lack of engagement with work on the history of medieval women other than that of Jesch or Jenny Jochens. There has been so much good scholarship produced on medieval women and their engagement with power, authority, artistic patronage, religion, etc, over the past thirty years. Even if much of that work isn't directly on the Viking Age, I think it would have provided a useful set of comparatives—something against which to test Friðriksdóttir's assertions about the gendered limits of women's power in this time and place. She appears to take a more minimalist view of such things than scholars of other elite medieval women—which would be fine, if it were clearer to me whether that's because she disagrees with them or because she does not have much grounding in their work. I've also got a couple of question marks about Friðriksdóttir's framing of the archaeological evidence.
I think this will be useful to refer back to when looking for moments in the sagas which have a particular thematic relevance in relation to women, but as a general overview it's not as authoritative as I was hoping for.… (más)