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11%OFFFredric L. Cheyette - Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past) - 9780801489259 - V9780801489259
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Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past)

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Description for Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past) Paperback. Series: Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past. Num Pages: 496 pages, 38. BIC Classification: 3H; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 168 x 32. Weight in Grams: 744.

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. Throughout her long reign, viscountess Ermengard roamed Occitania receiving oaths ... Read more

The land between the Rhone and the Pyrenees was a delicately balanced world in which honor, dispute, and the fragile communities of loyalty and family held a "stateless" society together. In Cheyette's prose there rises before us a world we had not imagined, in which women were powerful lords, moving back and forth across what we now call Spain, France, and Italy to play the harsh political games essential to the preservation of their realms. But the region was also fertile ground for religious practices deemed heretical by the Church. The attempt to eradicate them would spawn the Albigensian Crusade, which destroyed the cosmopolitan world of Ermengard and the troubadours—the world that lives again in this book.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Series
Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801489259
SKU
V9780801489259
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About Fredric L. Cheyette
Fredric L. Cheyette is Emeritus Professor of History at Amherst College.

Reviews for Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past)
A book that is both about southwestern France in the twelfth century and also about the challenges of biography. It is a fascinating study, beautifully written.... This rich and highly rewarding work should find a wide audience: scholars of the Middle Ages, historians who are not medievalists, even advanced undergraduates.
American Historical Review
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