Die Witwenschaft kinderloser Königinnen im Hochmittelalter

Childlessness greatly affected the scope of possibilities for widowed queens to manage their lives after their husband’s death. While mothers of succeeding sons were usually able, and in cases of young kings often even expected, to stay at court, where they continued or increased their political inf...

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Veröffentlicht in:Das Mittelalter. - Heidelberg : Heidelberg University Publishing, 1996. - 26(2021), 2, Seite 393-411
1. Verfasser: Foerster, Anne (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:German
Veröffentlicht: 2021-12-09
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Das Mittelalter
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