Capetian Women

305 Pages·2003·4.902 MB·English

by  Kathleen Nolan (eds.)

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CAPETIAN WOMEN
Edited by
Kathleen Nolan
CAPETIANWOMEN
© Kathleen Nolan,2003
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Capetian women/edited by Kathleen Nolan.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Capet,House of.2.Queens––France––Biography.3.Queens––
France––History––To 1500.4.France––History––Capetians,987–1328.
5.Women––France––Biography.6.Women––France––History––To 1500.
I.Nolan,Kathleen,1952– II.Series.
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations vii
Introduction 1
Kathleen Nolan
1. Constance of Arles:A Study in Duty and Frustration 9
Penelope Ann Adair
2. The Creation of a Crone:The Historical Reputation of
Adelaide of Maurienne 27
Lois L.Huneycutt
3. The Tomb of Adelaide of Maurienne and the Visual
Imagery of Capetian Queenship 45
Kathleen Nolan
4. A Capetian Queen as Street Demonstrator:Isabelle of Hainaut 77
Aline G.Hornaday
5. The Ingeborg Psalter:Queenship,Legitimacy,and the
Appropriation of Byzantine Art in the West 99
Kathleen S.Schowalter
6. Blanche of Castile and Facinger’s “Medieval Queenship”:
Reassessing the Argument 137
Miriam Shadis
7. Two Capetian Queens as the Foreground for an Aristocrat’s
Anxiety in the Vie de saint Louis 163
Afrodesia E.McCannon
8. Queenship and Kinship in the French Bible moralisée:The
Example of Blanche of Castile and Vienna ÖNB 2554 177
Tracy Chapman Hamilton
9. Isabelle of France and Religious Devotion at the
Court of Louis IX 209
William Chester Jordan
vi CONTENTS
10. Isabelle of France and Her Manuscripts,1308–58
Anne Rudloff Stanton 225
11. Jeanne of Valois:The Power of a Consort 253
Anneke B.Mulder-Bakker
12. Historical Ironies in the Study of Capetian Women 271
Kimberly A.LoPrete
List of Contributors 287
Index 289
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
3.1. Tomb slab of Adelaide of Maurienne,Paris,Saint-
Pierre-de-Montmartre (photo:Arch.Phot.Paris/CNMHS) 46
3.2. Drawing of Saint-Pierre-de-Montmartre in 1625 by
Martellange,Paris,Bibliothèque nationale de France,
Estampes,C22672 (photo:Bibliothèque nationale de France) 50
3.3. Paris,Saint-Pierre-de-Montmartre,capitals of north
side of apse (photo:author) 51
3.4. Tomb slab of Fredegonde,from Paris,Saint-Germain-
des-Près,now Saint-Denis (photo:Zodiaque) 52
3.5. Seal of Bertrade of Montfort,Paris,Bibliothèque nationale
de France,MS lat.5441/4,fol.113 (photo:Bibliothèque
nationale de France) 54
3.6. Seal of Adelaide of Maurienne,Paris,Bibliothèque nationale
de France,MS lat.17113,fol.5 (photo:Bibliothèque
nationale de France) 57
5.1. Melisende Psalter.London,British Library,MS Egerton
1139,folio 4v,Transfiguration (photo:British Library) 111
5.2. Ingeborg Psalter.Chantilly,Musée Condé,MS 1695,folio
20v,Transfiguration (photo:Giraudon/Art Resource,
New York) 112
5.3. Melisende Psalter.London,British Library,MS Egerton
1139,folio 3v,Baptism of Christ (photo:British Library) 115
5.4. Ingeborg Psalter.Chantilly,Musée Condé,MS 1695,folio
19r,Baptism of Christ (photo:Marburg/Art Resource,
New York) 116
5.5. Ingeborg Psalter.Chantilly,Musée Condé,MS 1695,folio
32v,Pentecost (photo:Giraudon/Art Resource,New York) 117
viii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
8.1. Bible moralisée,Vienna,Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
MS 2554,fol.6r,Rebecca giving birth to Esau and Jacob
signifies Sainte Église producing good Christians and
miscreants (photo:Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) 185
8.2. Bible moralisée,Vienna,Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
MS 2554,fol.34v,Ruth conceiving and giving birth to
Obed signifies the baptism of Christian infants in the Holy
Church (photo:Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) 186
8.3. Bible moralisée,Vienna,Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
MS 2554,fol.16r,the massacre of the Israelites in Egypt
signifies the Massacre of the Innocents at Bethlehem (photo:
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) 187
8.4. Bible moralisée,Vienna,Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
MS 2554,fol.7r,Jacob clothing Joseph signifies Christ
clothed in the womb of the Virgin (photo:
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) 189
8.5. Bible moralisée,Vienna,Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
MS 2554,fol.27v,the Israelites baking bread signifies
the Annunciation and Conception of Christ in the womb
of the Virgin (photo:Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) 190
8.6. Bible moralisée,Vienna,Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
MS 2554,fol.18r,God making Moses’s hand leperous and
then healthy again signifies Sainte Église banishing the
wicked and welcoming the repentant (photo:Österreichische
Nationalbibliothek) 191
8.7. Bible moralisée,Vienna,Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
MS 2554,fol.22r,the Israelites receiving manna signifies
Sainte Église as provider of God’s word (photo:
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) 193
10.1. Isabelle Psalter (Munich,Bayerische Staatsbibliothek,
cod.Gall.16),fol.35v.Marriage of David and Michal
(photo:Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) 231
10.2. Isabelle Apocalypse,Paris,Bibliothèque nationale de France,
MS Fr.13096,fol.86v.Torments of the damned (photo:
Bibliothèque nationale de France) 233
10.3. Queen Mary Psalter,London,British Library MS Royal
2Bvii,fol.62v.David instructed by Gad;the Plague (photo:
British Library) 235
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix
10.4. Queen Mary Psalter,London,British Library MS Royal
2Bvii,fol.112v.Adoration of the Magi;the Tale of the
Weasel (photo:British Library) 236
10.5. Treatise of Walter of Milemete,Oxford,Christ Church
College Library,MS 92,fol.4v.Edward III and Isabelle
(photo:Christ Church College Library) 239
10.6. Brunetto Latini and miscellaneous texts,Paris,Bibliothèque
nationale de France,MS Fr.571,fol.6.Creation,with
Edward III and Philippa of Hainaut (photo:Bibliothèque
nationale de France) 241
10.7. Taymouth Hours,London,British Library MS Yates
Thompson 13,fol.18.Isabelle and Man;creation of the
animals (photo:British Library) 244