A distinguished scholar troduces readers to the Occitania, an important region of France during the eleventh and twelfth centuries where women held important positions of power, including the remarkable Ermengard, ruler of Narbonne, who led her city through a complex and fragile time.
A distinguished scholar troduces readers to the Occitania, an important region of France during the eleventh and twelfth centuries where women held im...
Before France became France its territories included Occitania, roughly the present-day province of Languedoc. The city of Narbonne was a center of Occitanian commerce and culture during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. For most of the second half of the twelfth century, that city and its environs were ruled by a remarkable woman, Ermengard, who negotiated her city's way through a maze of everchanging dynastic alliances.
Fredric L. Cheyette's masterful and beautifully illustrated book is a biography of an extraordinary warrior woman and of a unique, vulnerable, doomed society....
Before France became France its territories included Occitania, roughly the present-day province of Languedoc. The city of Narbonne was a center of...
