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Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) and Political Women in the High Middle Ages

Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) and Political Women in the High Middle Ages

Shadis, M.

Hardcover

Series: New Middle Ages

General Gender StudiesGeneral Political ScienceWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0312234732
ISBN13: 9780312234737
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 16 2009
Pages: 251
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
The women in the family which ruled thirteenth-century Castile used maternity, familial and political strategy, and religious and cultural patronage to secure their personal power as well as to promote their lineage. Leonor of England, and her daughters Blanche of Castile (queen of France), Urraca (queen of Portugal), Costanza (a Cistercian nun of Las Huelgas) and Leonor, (queen of Aragon) provide the context for a study focusing on Berenguela of Castile, queen of Leon through marriage and of Castile by right of inheritance, whose most significant accomplishment was to enable the successful rule of her son Fernando.

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