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Marriage for Medieval kings was about politics, power and the provision of legitimate heirs. Mistresses were about love, lust and possession. It was a world tha

Kings throughout medieval and early modern Europe had extraconjugal sexual partners. Only in France, however, did the royal mistress become a quasi-institutiona

Tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses.

Marriage for Medieval kings was about politics, power and the provision of legitimate heirs. Mistresses were about love, lust and possession. It was a world tha

Examining the roles played by the mistress and the concubine, this study also sheds light on commercial sex, the ready availability of which possibly protected