Blanche of Castile

Queen of France

• Author(s): Lindy Grant,
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Pages: 455
• ISBN_10: 0300219261
  ISBN_13: 9780300219265
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General , Biography & Autobiography / Royalty , History / Europe / France , History / Europe / Medieval ,

Description:... This is the first modern scholarly biography of Blanche of Castile, whose identity has until now been subsumed in that of her son, the saintly Louis IX. A central figure in the politics of medieval Europe, Blanche was a sophisticated patron of religion and culture. Through Lindy Grant's engaging account, based on a close analysis of Blanche's household accounts and of the social and religious networks on which her power and agency depended, Blanche is revealed as a vibrant and intellectually questioning personality.