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Notes Introduction I. The ((Historia Pontificalis))ofJohn ofSalisbury, ed. and trans. Marjorie Chibnall (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), 52-62. 2. William of Tyre, "Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum ;' Recueil des historiens des croisades. Historiens occidentaux (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1845), I: 752; translation from William, Archbishop of Tyre, A History ofDeeds Done Beyond the Sea, trans. Emily Atwater Babcock and A.C. Krey, 2vols. (NewYork: Columbia University Press, 1943), II: 180. 3. Georges Duby, The Knight) the Lady and the Priest: The Making ofMarriage in Medieval France, trans. Barbara Bray (New York: Pantheon, 1983), 189-96. I discuss this incident in the context of succession politics below, 12-13. 4. Rita Lejeune, "Le role litteraire d'Alienor d'Aquitaine et de sa famille;' Cultura Neolatina 14 (1954): 5-57; and "Le role litteraire de la famille d'Alienor d'Aquitaine;' Cahiers de Civilisation Medievale I (1958): 303-20; Moshe Lazar, "Cupid, the Lady, and the Poet: Modes of Love at Eleanor of Aquitaine's Court;' Eleanor ofAquitaine: Patron and Politician, ed. William W. Kibler, Symposia in the Arts and the Humanities 3 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1976), 35-59; D. D. R. Owen, Eleanor of Aquitaine : Queen and Legend (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993), 162-212; Edmond-Rene Labande, "Pour une image veridique d'Alienor d'Aquitaine;' Bulletin de la Societe des Antiquaires de POuest 4th sere 2 (1952): 175-234; Ruth E. Harvey, The Troubadour Marcabru and Love (London: Westfield College, University of London Committee for Medieval Studies, 1989), 131-39. 5. For various approaches to courtly love, see Roger Boase, The Origin and Meaning ofCourtly Love (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1977); C. S. Lewis, The Allegory of Love (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958); Christiane Marchello-Nizia, "Amour courtois, societe masculine, et figures du pouvoir;' Annales: Economies) Societes) Civilisations 36, 6 (1981): 969-82; F. X. Newman, ed., The Meaning of Courtly Love (Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1968); and Francis L. Utley, "Must We Abandon the Concept of Courtly Love?" Medievalia et Humanistica n.s. 3(1972): 299-324. 180 Notes to Pages 3-6 6. Janet L. Nelson, "Queens as Jezebels: The Careers of Brunhild and Balthild in Merovingian History;' Medieval Women, ed. Derek Baker (Oxford: Blackwell, 1978), 39. 7. Nelson, "Queens as Jezebels;' 36-39. 8. Genevieve Biihrer-Thierry, "La reine adultere;' Cahiers de Civilisation Midievale 35 (1992 ): 300. 9. Biihrer-Thierry, "La reine adultere;' 300-301. For other sources that recognize the importance of the queen's role within the palace and the kingdom and for further discussion ofthe model ofEsther, see Lois L. Huneycutt, "Intercession and the High-Medieval Queen: The Esther Topos;' The Power ofthe lVeak: Studies on Medieval Women, ed. Jennifer Carpenter and Sally-Beth MacLean (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995), 126-46. 10. Biihrer-Thierry, "La reine adultere;' 299. II. Marion F. Facinger, "A Study of Medieval Queenship: Capetian France, 987-1237;' Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History 5 (1968): 27 29; see also Robert Fawtier, The Capetian Kings of France: Monarchy and Nation) 987-1328, trans. Lionel Butler and R. J. Adam (London: Macmillan, 1960), 27-28. Roger Collins notes that in the royal charters of the tenthcentury kingdom of Pamplona, kings and queens are represented as ruling jointly. "Queens-Dowager and Queens-Regent in Tenth-Century Leon and Navarre;' MedievalQueenship, ed. John Carmi Parsons (New York: St. Martin 's Press, 1993), 90. 12. Facinger, "A Study of Medieval Queenship;' 28-29. See also Andrew W. Lewis, Royal Succession in Capetian France: Studies on Familial Order and the State (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981), 55. 13. Facinger, ''A Study of Medieval Queenship;' 32-40. 14. Facinger, ''A Study of Medieval Queenship:' 38-39; John W. Baldwin , The Government ofPhilip Augustus: Foundations ofFrench Royal Power in the Middle Ages (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986), 83-84, 357; Inge Skovgaard-Petersen with Nanna Damsholt, "Queenship in Medieval Denmark;' Medieval Queenship, ed. John Carmi Parsons (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993), 29. IS. Gabrielle M. Spiegel, "The Reditus Regni ad Stirpem Karoli Magni: A New Look;' French Historical Studies 7 (1971): 156-57. 16. Lewis, Royal Succession in Capetian France, 47-50. 17. John Carmi Parsons, "The Queen's Intercession in ThirteenthCentury England;' The Power of the lVeak: Studies on Medieval Women, ed. Jennifer Carpenter and Sally-Beth MacLean (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995), 149. 18. Parsons, "The Queen's Intercession;' 149-50. 19. Claire Richter Sherman, "The Queen in Charles...

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