Aristocratic Women in Medieval France

List of Contributors

Contributors Fredric L. Cheyette is Professor of History at Amherst College. He edited Lordship and Community inMedieval Europe (1968) and has written a number of articles, notably "Suum Cuique Tribuere," French Historical Studies (1970) and "The Invention of the State," in Essays in Medieval Civilization: The Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, ed. B.K. Lackner and K.R. Phillip (1979). He is writing a book entitled Lady of the Troubadours: Ermengard ofNarbonne and the Politics of Her Age. Theodore Evergates is Professor of History at Western Maryland College. He has published several studies on medieval society in the county of Champagne , including Feudal Society in the Bailliapfe of Troyes Under the Counts of Champagne, 1152-1284 (1975) and Feudal Society in Medieval France: Documents from the County of Champagne (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993), as well as "Nobles and Knights in Medieval France," in Cultures of Power:Lordship, Status,and Process in Twelfth-Century Europe, ed. Thomas N. Bisson (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995). Amy Livingstone is Assistant Professor of History at Wittenberg University . She is author of "Kith and Kin: Kinship and Family Structure of the Nobility of Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Blois-Chartres," FrenchHistorical Studies (1997), "Noblewomen's Control of Property in Early TwelfthCentury Blois-Chartres,"Medieval Prosopography (1997),and "Powerful Adversaries : Aristocratic Women and Power in Medieval France," in Women and Medieval Culture (1998), ed. Linda Mitchell. She is preparing a booklength study on aristocratic families in the county ofBlois-Chartres. Kimberly A. LoPrete, is Lecturer in History at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her publications include "The Anglo-Norman Card of Adela of Blois,"Albion (1990), "Adela of Blois and Ivo of Chartres: Piety, Politics, and the Peace in the Diocese of Chartres," Anglo-Norman Studies (1991), and "Adela of Blois as Mother and Countess," mMedieval Mothering , ed. John Carmi Parsons and Bonnie Wheeler (1996). She is writing a book-length study of Countess Adela. 258 Contributors Karen S. Nicholas isAssociate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Oswego. Her articles include "The Role of Feudal Relationships in the Consolidation of Power in the Principalities of the Low Countries ," in Law, Custom, and the Social Fabric in Medieval Europe: Essays in Honor of Bryce Lyon (1990), "When Feudal Ideas Failed: Conflictsbetween Lords and Vassals in the Low Countries, 1127-1296," in The Rusted Hauberk : Feudal Ideals of Order and Their Decline, ed. Liam O. Purdon and Cindy L. Vitto (1994), and "Women as Rulers: Countesses Jeanne and Marguerite of Flanders, 1212-1278," inQueens, Regents, and Potentates, ed. Theresa M. Vann (1994). She is preparing a book entitled Princes, Lords, and Vassals in the Low Counties, 1000-1300. ...