The Limits of Chivalry
Caroline Weber: Courtly Love, 23 January 2014
Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France
by Kathleen Wellman.
Yale, 433 pp., £30, July 2013,978 0 300 17885 2 Show More
by Kathleen Wellman.
Yale, 433 pp., £30, July 2013,
“... Calvinist faith, the French court was home to a series of extraordinarily influential women. As Kathleen Wellman shows in Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France, these royal wives and favourites made much of their proximity to the crown, exerting their influence in diverse and far-reaching ways. Their achievements were all the more remarkable ... ”
