Gendered Reputations and Aristocratic Partnership

Medieval rulership is increasingly understood as the exercise of shared power, and nowhere was this partnership more evident than between married couples. The study of reputation provides a new way of assessing how the expectations of martial lordship adapted to this joint authority. This book examines the messy legacies of Jeanne de Penthièvre and Charles de Blois, duchess and duke of Brittany, and their fight to claim the ducal title at the start of the Hundred Years’ War. Their story was reto