Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours (Hardcover)

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 ever changing 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 Ermengard roamed Occitania receiving oaths of fidelity, negotiating treaties, set thing disputes among the lords of her lands, and camping with her armies before the walls of besieged cities. She was born into a world of politics and warfare, but from the Mediterranean to the North Sea her name echoed in songs that treated the arts of love.

General

Imprint:	Cornell University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Conjunctions of Religion & Power in the Medieval Past S.
Release date:	September 2001
First published:	November 2001
Authors:	Fredric L. Cheyette
Dimensions:	238 x 167 x 37mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	520
ISBN-13:	978-0-8014-3952-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Royalty Books > Humanities > History > European history > 500 to 1500 Books > History > European history > 500 to 1500 Books > Biography > Royalty
LSN:	0-8014-3952-3
Barcode:	9780801439520

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