France -- Histoire -- 987-1515

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Were aristocratic women in medieval France little more than appendages to patrilineal families, valued as objects of exchange and necessary only for the production of male heirs? Such was the view proposed by the great French historian Georges Duby more than three decades ago an…

"This elegantly written volume turns upside down prejudices and idées reçues concerning society, family, and women in the Middle Ages."--The Medieval Review.