Aristocratic Women in Medieval France Pressure groups Marsh argues

Marsh argues

and Miguel Vatter

The Indigenous perspective has been largely missing from the literature on migration

and reproductive abuse

Aristocratic Women in Medieval France Pressure groups Marsh arguesWere aristocratic women in medieval France little more than appendages to patrilineal families, valued as objects of exchange and necessary only for the production of male heirs? Such was the view proposed by the great French historian Georges Duby more than three decades ago and still widely accepted. In Aristocratic Women in Medieval France another model is put forth: women of the landholding elitefrom countesses down to the wives of ordinary