Courting Sanctity : Holy Women and the Capetians /
"Courting Sanctity argues that during the reign of Louis IX (r. 1226-70) holy women were central to the rise of the French royal family's self-presentation as uniquely favored by God, that their influence began to be questioned at the court of Philip III (r. 1270-85), and that would-be hol...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2019.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue : the rise of Capetian sanctity and the reign of Louis IX
- Isabelle of France : a holy woman at the heart of the Capetian court
- Douceline of Digne : co-mother to Capetians
- Prologue : a crisis in the reign of Philip III
- Elizabeth of Spalbeek : a prince's death, a queen's crime, and a king's sin
- Writing holy women, 1282-85
- Prologue : the culminating reign of Philip IV
- Paupertas of Metz : peacemaker, prophet, or poisoner?
- Marguerite Porete and Margueronne Bellevillette : the beguine and the sorceress
- Epilogue : echoes and afterlives.