Overview
- Incorporates extensive archival research including letters and official documents
- Illustrates the expanding Mediterranean power of the Crown of Aragon during the 1300s
- Demonstrates the power of a queen in relation to politics, war, economics, and religion
Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Elionor of Sicily, 1325–1375: A Mediterranean Queen’s Life of Family, Administration, Diplomacy, and War follows Elionor of Sicily, the third wife of the important Aragonese king, Pere III. Despite the limited amount of personal information about Elionor, the large number of Sicilian, Catalan, and Aragonese chronicles as well as the massive amount of notarial evidence drawn from eastern Spanish archives has allowed Donald Kagay to trace Elionor’s extremely active life roles as a wife and mother, a queen, a frustrated sovereign, a successful administrator, a supporter of royal war, a diplomat, a feudal lord, a fervent backer of several religious orders, and an energetic builder of royal sites. Drawing from the correspondence between the queen and her husband, official papers and communiques, and a vast array of notarial documents, the book casts light on the many phases of the queen’s life.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Donald J. Kagay, is Adjunct Professor at the University of Dallas, USA. He was full professor at Albany State University, USA where he taught from 1993 to 2015. He is the founder of the Texas Medieval Association which is now in its thirty-first year. He has published forty-six articles in refereed journals and fourteen books on medieval military and legal history in the Crown of Aragon.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Elionor of Sicily, 1325–1375
Book Subtitle: A Mediterranean Queen of Two Worlds
Authors: Donald J. Kagay
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71028-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71027-9Published: 20 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71030-9Published: 21 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71028-6Published: 19 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 263
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Medieval Literature, History of Medieval Europe, Medieval Philosophy