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An in-depth study of coexisting social norms of princely power cutting across categories of hierarchy, gender, and collaborative rulership.

Jeanne de Penthièvre (c.1326–1384), duchess of Brittany, was an active and determined ruler who maintained her claim to the duchy throughout a war of success

Proximity to the monarch was a vital asset in the struggle for power and influence in medieval and early modern courts. The concept of ‘access to the ruler’

The essays in this volume portray the public life of late medieval France as that country established its position as a leader of western European society in th

Ideology and Royal Power is a collection of essays describing and assessing the ways in which royal publicists in medieval France conceived the authority of the