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1. Record Number: 10904
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Title : Blanche of Castile and Facinger's "Medieval Queenship": Reassessing the Argument [The author examines Facinger's argument for the diminution of Capetian queenly power and holds up Blanche of Castile as a counter argument. Shadis points to her authority and power, often in "non-official" venues, as mother and regent, arguing that she shows a solid and consistent exercise of queenship. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Capetian Women.   Edited by Kathleen Nolan .   Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.  Pages 137 - 161.
Year of Publication: 2003.

2. Record Number: 10905
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Title : Two Capetian Queens as the Foreground for an Aristocrats's Anxiety in the "Vie de Saint Louis" [The author argues that Joinville's text is really about his own qualities in comparison to the king's. His close relationship with the queen Margaret emphasizes the political side of the barons in their struggle with the monarchy. It also demonstrates Joinville's admirable qualities compared to the king's strange coldness toward his wife and children. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Capetian Women.   Edited by Kathleen Nolan .   Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.  Pages 163 - 176.
Year of Publication: 2003.

3. Record Number: 10906
Author(s): Hamilton, Tracy Chapman
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Title : Queenship and Kinship in the French "Bible moralisée": The Example of Blanche of Castile and Vienna ÖNB 2554 [The author argues that the manuscript was commissioned by Blanche possibly during the early period of her regency. The repeated images of childbirth and Sainte Église in the illuminations emphasize Blanche's particular rights as mother and authorized regent. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Capetian Women.   Edited by Kathleen Nolan .   Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.  Pages 177 - 208.
Year of Publication: 2003.

4. Record Number: 4771
Author(s): Ruiz-Domènec, José Enrique.
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Title : Les souvenirs croisés de Blanche de Castille [The author argues in part that Blanche developed marriage strategies that brought forth the state centered on the person of the king].
Source: Cahiers de Civilization Médiévale , 42., ( 1999):  Pages 39 - 54.
Year of Publication: 1999.

5. Record Number: 3679
Author(s): Shadis, Miriam.
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Title : Piety, Politics, and Power: The Patronage of Leonor of England and Her Daughters Berenguela of Léon and Blanche of Castile [The author argues that Leonor and her daughters used patronage as a means to power, authority, and piety; they did this to ensure the power of their families and lineage, hence their active efforts to memorialize their dead].
Source: The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women.   Edited by June Hall McCash .   University of Georgia Press, 1996. Cahiers de Civilization Médiévale , 42., ( 1999):  Pages 202 - 227.
Year of Publication: 1996.