Based on a comprehensive re-evaluation of sources, this is the first scholarly volume devoted to the life and political career of Adela, the youngest daughter o
What have a deaf nun, the mother of the first baby born to Europeans in North America, and a condemned heretic to do with one another? They are among the virtuo
Were aristocratic women in medieval France little more than appendages to patrilineal families, valued as objects of exchange and necessary only for the product
Eleanor's patrilineal descent, from a lineage already prestigious enough to have produced an empress in the eleventh century, gave her the lordship of Aquitaine