Femmes et pouvoir politique

With the continued expansion and flourishing of court studies and women's studies, this volume of essays is a very welcome addition to scholarship concerning queenship in European political culture. Indeed, as set out by its presenters, this collection is intended in part as an addition to previous collaborative works on medieval queenship, and more recent early modern collections by Fradenburg (ed. Women and Sovereignty, [1992]) and Campbell Orr (ed. Queenship in Europe: The Role of the Consort [2004]; rev. ante, cxxii [2007], 1414–16). It is also intended in part to redress a perceived imbalance in publications on the topic between the Anglophone and Francophone worlds. While this is indeed a valid suggestion, it is a pity that more books such as the present one are not available in English for use on university courses—given its breadth and the wealth of primary material included, but also because the works

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