Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe.(Book review)

The Historian | June 22, 2009| | Copyright

Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe. By Nancy Goldstone. (New York, N.Y.: Viking, 2007. Pp. xv, 336. $24.95.)

With all the passion and pace of a novel, this is a beautiful introduction to the politics of thirteenth-century Europe for the general reader. The four queens of the title were the daughters of Raymond Berenger V, Count of Provence. Marguerite and Eleanor married Louis IX of France and Henry III of England, respectively. Both queens proved their mettle during the greatest crises of their husbands' reigns. Marguerite's diplomacy from her ...

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