Unsentimental journey: Travels with a Medieval Queen.

The Women's Review of Books | December 1, 2001| | Copyright

Mary Taylor Simeti. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001, 306 pp., $25.00 hardcover.

Part history, part travelogue, Mary Taylor Simeti's book retraces the journey of a twelfth-century queen from her husband's center of power in Germany to her own birthplace and much-disputed royal inheritance in Sicily. Constance of Hauteville, empress of the Holy Roman Empire by virtue of her marriage to Henry VI of the Hohenstaufen line, traveled from the fortress of Trifels in the Black Forest to her childhood home of Palermo over a matter of about twelve months in 1194, her ...

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