Ermengard of Narbonne and the world of the troubadours / Fredric L. Cheyette.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-461) and index.

Maps -- Genealogies -- Preface -- A note on money, weights, and measures -- Introduction -- Ch. 1. The viscountess comes of age -- Ch. 2. Names and titles, histories and myths -- Ch. 3. The urban marketplace -- Ch. 4. City and countryside -- Ch. 5. Cities of Mammon, cities of Mars -- Ch. 6. The bishop in the city -- Ch. 7. Lordship -- Ch. 8. Serfdom and the dues of domination -- Ch. 9. Ermengard's entourage -- Ch. 10. Oaths and oath takers -- Ch. 11. Anger, conflict, and reconciliation -- Ch. 12. Giving and taking -- Ch. 13. Love and fidelity -- Ch. 14. Raymond V builds his empire -- Ch. 15. The ravaging of Occitania -- Ch. 16. Sowing the seeds of crusade -- Ch. 17. A war like an omen -- Ch. 18. Impatient heirs -- Ch. 19. The undoing of Occitania -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Before France became France its territories included Occitania, roughly the present-day province of Languedoc. The city of Narbonne was a center of Occitanian commerce and culture during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. For most of the second half of the twelfth century, that city and its environs were ruled by a remarkable woman, Ermengard, who negotiated her city's way through a maze of everchanging dynastic alliances." "Fredric L. Cheyette's illustrated book is a biography of an extraordinary warrior woman and of a unique, vulnerable, doomed society. Throughout her long reign, viscountess Ermengard roamed Occitania receiving oaths of fidelity, negotiating treaties, settling disputes among the lords of her lands, and camping with her armies before the walls of besieged cities. She was born into a world of politics and warfare, but from the Mediterranean to the North Sea her name echoed in songs that treated the arts of love."--BOOK JACKET.

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