Courting Sanctity: Holy Women and the Capetians

Author/Contributor(s):	Field, Sean L
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	05/15/2019
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

The rise of the Capetian dynasty across the long thirteenth century, which rested in part on the family's perceived sanctity, is a story most often told through the actions of male figures, from Louis IX's metamorphosis into "Saint Louis" to Philip IV's attacks on Pope Boniface VIII. In Courting Sanctity, Sean L. Field argues that, in fact...