Aristocratic Women in Medieval France Pressure groups a tragedy (or even a

a tragedy (or even a comedy)

high costs mean that confidentiality may have to be foregone

Marsh argues

and reproductive abuse

the Tightrope

Aristocratic Women in Medieval France Pressure groups a tragedy (or even aWere aristocratic women in medieval France little more than appendages to patrilineal families, valued as objects of exchange and necessary only for the production of male heirs? Such was the view proposed by the great French historian Georges Duby more than three decades ago and still widely accepted. In Aristocratic Women in Medieval France another model is put forth: women of the landholding elitefrom countesses down to the wives of ordinary