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Courting Sanctity: Holy Women and the Capetians

Courting Sanctity: Holy Women and the Capetians

Field, Sean L.

Hardcover

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryFrench HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1501736191
ISBN13: 9781501736193
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: May 15 2019
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 8.60 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

The rise of the Capetian dynasty across the long thirteenth century, which rested in part on the family's perceived sanctity, is a story most often told through the actions of male figures, from Louis IX's metamorphosis into Saint Louis to Philip IV's attacks on Pope Boniface VIII. In Courting Sanctity, Sean L. Field argues that, in fact, holy women were central to the Capetian's self-presentation as being uniquely favored by God. Tracing the shifting relationship between holy women and the French royal court, he shows that the roles and influence of these women were questioned and reshaped under Philip III and increasingly assumed to pose physical, spiritual, and political threats by the time of Philip IV's death.

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