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Ermengard of Narbonne and the world of the troubadours

Title: Ermengard of Narbonne and the world of the troubadours / Fredric L. Cheyette.
Author: Cheyette, Fredric L.
Publication: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2001.

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Description

xiii, 474 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"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 illustrated book is a biography of an extraordinary warrior woman and of a unique, vulnerable, doomed society. Throughout her long reign, viscountess Ermengard roamed Occitania receiving oaths of fidelity, negotiating treaties, settling 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Conjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past

Uniform Title

Conjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-461) and index.

ISBN

0801439523
9780801439520

LCCN

2001002626

OCLC

ocm46882708
46882708
SCSB-4196435

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Columbia University Libraries