caa a22 4500 386314780 CHVBK 20180307111602.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3678969 doi S0080440100013189 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/3678969 Chibnall Marjorie The Empress Matilda and Church Reform [Elektronische Daten] [Marjorie Chibnall] MATILDA'S epitaph, proclaiming her the daughter, wife and parent of a Henry, great by birth, greater in marriage, and greatest of all in her offspring, epitomises her standing among her contemporaries. It also explains some of the difficulty any historian must experience in attempting to penetrate her character and motives. Her role was seen essentially as an auxiliary one. The relatively few years when she played a leading part in English politics as ‘domina Anglorum', with one very brief and ill-advised attempt to act as ‘regina Anglie', years to which modern historians have devoted most of the pages they have allowed her, counted for virtually nothing in the summing up of her influence made in 1167. As a woman involved in politics she was assigned a woman's place: important and influential, but limited, variable, and always secondary. Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1988 Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Cambridge University Press 38(1988-12), 107-130 0080-4401 38<107 1988 38 RHT https://doi.org/10.2307/3678969 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3678969 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Chibnall Marjorie NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Cambridge University Press 38(1988-12), 107-130 0080-4401 38<107 1988 38 RHT CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge