@article{1451183,
      recid = {1451183},
      author = {Bom, Myra M.,},
      title = {Constance of France : womanhood and agency in  twelfth-century Europe /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xx, 316 pages) :},
      abstract = {Constance of France: Womanhood and Agency in  Twelfth-Century Europe is a biography of Constance of  France, sister of King Louis VII of France. Myra Bom  recovers Constances life story and puts it in its medieval  context by examining the historical evidence of chronicles,  charters, seal imprints and letters. The countesss long and  interesting life makes for womens history with a large  geographical scope, including France, England, Toulouse and  the Latin East. It touches on many aspects of life during  the Middle Ages such as birth, marriage and divorce, gender  roles, experience of time, and expectation for the  afterlife. Bom demonstrates how and to what extent medieval  women could, and did, take control of their own lives. This  book is an account of the interplay of historical context  and agency. .},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1451183},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10429-9},
}