Capetian Women

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Kathleen Nolan

   Pages 1-7

3. Constance of Arles: A Study in Duty and Frustration

   • Penelope Ann Adair

   Pages 9-26

4. The Creation of a Crone: The Historical Reputation of Adelaide of Maurienne

   • Lois L. Huneycutt

   Pages 27-43

5. The Tomb of Adelaide of Maurienne and the Visual Imagery of Capetian Queenship

   • Kathleen Nolan

   Pages 45-76

6. A Capetian Queen as Street Demonstrator: Isabelle of Hainaut

   • Aline G. Hornaday

   Pages 77-97

7. The Ingeborg Psalter: Queenship, Legitimacy, and the Appropriation of Byzantine Art in the West

   • Kathleen S. Schowalter

   Pages 99-135

8. Blanche of Castile and Facinger’s “Medieval Queenship”: Reassessing the Argument

   • Miriam Shadis

   Pages 137-161

9. Two Capetian Queens as the Foreground for an Aristocrat’s Anxiety in the Vie de Saint Louis

   • Afrodesia E. McCannon

   Pages 163-174

10. Queenship and Kinship in the French Bible Moralisée: The Example of Blanche of Castile and Vienna ÖNB 2554

    • Tracy Chapman Hamilton

    Pages 177-208

11. Isabelle of France and Religious Devotion at the Court of Louis IX

    • William Chester Jordan

    Pages 209-223

12. Isabelle of France and Her Manuscripts, 1308–58

    • Anne Rudloff Stanton

    Pages 225-252

13. Jeanne of Valois: The Power of a Consort

    • Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker

    Pages 253-269

14. Historical Ironies in the Study of Capetian Women

    • Kimberly A. LoPrete

    Pages 271-286

15. Back Matter

    Pages 287-302

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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.

• France
• history
• manuscripts
• medieval history
• women

KATHLEEN NOLAN is Associate Editor of art history at Vanderbilt University, USA.

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