Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
-Kimberly A. LoPrete Theodore Evergates
1. Adela of Blois: Familial Alliances and Female Lordship
-Kimberly A. LoPrete
2. Aristocratic Women in the Chartrain
-Amy Livingstone
3. Aristocratic Women in the County of Champagne
-Theodore Evergates
4. Countesses as Rulers in Flanders
-Karen S. Nicholas
5. Women, Poets, and Politics in Occitania
-Fredric L. Cheyette

Notes
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

Promotional Information

"This elegantly written volume turns upside down prejudices and idées reçues concerning society, family, and women in the Middle Ages."—The Medieval Review

About the Author

Theodore Evergates is Professor of History at Western Maryland College. Among his books is Feudal Society in Medieval France: Documents from the County of Champagne, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Reviews

"Gender studies and revisionist scholarship at its best. Presenting hard facts of solid research, this elegantly written volume turns upside down prejudices and idees recues concerning society, family, and women in the Middle Ages."--The Medieval Review