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Materiality in the Queenship of Isabeau of Bavaria

October 18, 2014 By Medievalists.net

This thesis revisits the origins of Isabeau of Bavaria’s notorious reputation – her ‘Black Legend’.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Charles VI, Fifteenth Century, Fourteenth Century, France, Isabeau of Bavaria, Queenship

The Reputation of the Queen and Public Opinion: The Case of Isabeau of Bavaria

January 12, 2014 By Medievalists.net

This essay takes issue with a still common tendency to read contemporary criticisms of powerful women as straightforward evidence of their “unpopularity,” using as a cast study Isabeau of Bavaria (1371-1435), who was generally imagined to have suffered the scorn of her contemporaries.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Bavaria, Burgundy, Feminist, Fifteenth Century, Fourteenth Century, France, Gender, Isabeau of Bavaria, John the Fearless Duke of Burgundy, King Charles VIII, Late Middle Ages, Medieval Women, Politics

The Queen as ‘social mannequin’. Consumerism and expenditure at the Court of Isabeau of Bavaria, 1393–1422

September 5, 2011 By Medievalists.net

The Queen as ‘social mannequin’. Consumerism and expenditure at the Court of Isabeau of Bavaria, 1393–1422 Gibbons, Rachel C. Journal of Medieval History, Vol. 26, No. 4, (2000) Abstract Unjustifiably, but often, dismissed as the driest of sources, medieval accounts can be a mine of historical and social information, and those of Isabeau of Bavaria, queen of […]