The first study to juxtapose medieval effigy tombs and personal seals, the two forms of cultural patronage through which royal women crafted a visual imagery for queenship in twelfth- and early thirteenth-century France.

KATHLEEN NOLAN is Professor of Art History at Hollins University, USA.

Preface Foundations Bertrade of Montfort Adelaide of Maurienne Eleanor of Aquitaine and Her Contemporaries Blanche of Castile Conclusion