Queenship in Medieval France, 1300-1500

CONTENTS

The Queens of France (Fourteenth-Fifteenth Centuries)

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I

ACCEDING TO ROYAL DIGNITY

Chapter 1

Matrimonial Strategies

Royal Weddings

Love and Separation: The Royal Couple

Chapter 2

MARRYING THE MONARCHY: THE QUEEN'S CORONATION

The Body in All Its Majesty: The Coronation of Joan of Bourbon

The Forgotten Coronation?: Queens of the Fifteenth Century

Chapter 3

The Indispensability of Motherhood

The Purified Woman: Lying-In and Child Rearing

The Mother as Educator

Part II

A WOMAN IN POLITICS:

THE POWER OF THE QUEEN <

Chapter 4

THE 'PROFESSION' OF QUEEN

Capetian Queens and Salic Law

Heiress Queens and Dowager Queens: The Territorial Inscription of Reginal Power

Chapter 5

DELEGATING POWER AND REGENCY

Regency 'Orders': Female Power?

Female Regency in Action: Seats of Power and Governance of the Kingdom

Chapter 6

THE 'QUEEN OF CEREMONIES'

The Queen's Allegorical Body: Entry Ceremonies

The Queen's Final Triumph: Death and Funerals

Part III

THE SYMBOLIC GOVERNMENT

Chapter 7

COURTLY SOCIETY: THE QUEEN IN HER HÔTEL

The Queen's Apartments

The 'Court of Ladies': The Queen's Hôtel

Chapter 8

THE ROAD TO ETERNITY: DEVOTIONS AND THE DIVINE

The Queen as 'Mother of the Poor'

Religious and Sacred Foundations

THE QUEEN'S TREASURY: ART, LITERATURE AND POWER

Art and Politics: The Queen's Treasury

Books and Culture: The Queen's Library

Conclusion

Notes

Index