Capetian Women (New Middle Ages)

Never before have the women of the Capetian royal dynasty in France been the subject of a study in their own right. The new research in Capetian Women challenges old paradigms about the restricted roles of royal women, uncovering their influence in social, religious, cultural, and even political spheres. The scholars in the volume consider medieval chroniclers' responses to the independent actions of royal women as well as modern historians' use of them as vehicles for constructing the past. The essays also delineate the creation of reginal identity through cultural practices such as religious patronage and the commissioning of manuscripts, tomb sculpture, and personal seals.

Kathleen D. Nolan is Associate Professor of art history at Hollins University.

Introduction * Constance of Arles: A Study in Duty and Frustration--Penelope Ann Adair * Adelaide of Maurienne in History and Legend--Lois L. Huneycutt * AThe Tomb of Adelaide of Maurienne and the Visual Imagery of Capetian Queenship--Kathleen Nolan * A Capetian Queen as Street Demonstrator: Isabelle of Hainaut--Aline G. Hornaday * The Ingeborg Psalter: Queenship, Legitimacy, and the Appropriation of Byzantine Art in the West--Kathleen Schowalter * Blanche of Castile and Facinger's Medieval Queenship: Reassessing the Argument--Miriam Shadis * Queens as the Foreground for Aristocratic Anxiety in the Vie de Saint Louis--Afrodesia E. McCannon * Queenship and Kinship in the French Bible moralisée: the Example of Blanche of Castile and Vienna ÖNB 2554--Tracy Chapman Hamilton * Isabelle of France and Religious Devotion at the Court of Louis IX * Isabella of France and Her Manuscripts, 1308-1358--Anne Rudloff Stanton * Jeanne of Valois: The Power of a Consort--Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker * Jeanne d'Evreux and the Queenly Transfigurations in Lineage in Valois France, 1328-71--Barbara Drake Boehm * Historical Ironies in the Study of Capetian Women--Kimberly A.LoPrete