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.
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