Were aristocratic women in medieval France little more than appendages to patrilineal families, valued as objects of exchange and necessary only for the product

Modern historians have generally approached the study of medieval society through chronicles, charters, and other documents composed in Latin by members of the

Medieval society was dominated by its knights and nobles. The literature created in medieval Europe was primarily a literature of knightly deeds, and the modern

Theodore Evergates provides the first systematic analysis of the aristocracy in the county of Champagne under the independent counts. He argues that three facto

Countess Marie of Champagne is primarily known today as the daughter of Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine and as a literary patron of Chrétien de Tr