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Kagay, Donald J., Elionor of Sicily (1325–1375): A Mediterranean Queen of Two Worlds, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan (The New Middle Ages), 2021, xiii + 263 pp.

Resum
Elionor of Sicily, 1325–1375: A Mediterranean Queen's Life of Family, Administration, Diplomacy, and War follows Elionor of Sicily, the third wife of the important Aragonese king, Pere III. Despite the limited amount of personal information about Elionor, the large number of Sicilian, Catalan, and Aragonese chronicles as well as the massive amount of notarial evidence drawn from eastern Spanish archives has allowed Donald Kagay to trace Elionor's extremely active life roles as a wife and mother, a queen, a frustrated sovereign, a successful administrator, a supporter of royal war, a diplomat, a feudal lord, a fervent backer of several religious orders, and an energetic builder of royal sites. Drawing from the correspondence between the queen and her husband, official papers and communiques, and a vast array of notarial documents, the book casts light on the many phases of the queen's life.

Contents:
* Chapter 1: Introduction
* Chapter 2: The Many Faces of Medieval Mediterranean Queenship
* Chapter 3: Two Realms and a Marriage
* Chapter 4: Elionor and her Departed Homeland
* Chapter 5: The Fiscal Support of Queen Elionor
* Chapter 6: Elionor of Sicily as Courtier and Administrator
* Chapter 7: Elionor of Sicily as a Wartime Leader
* Chapter 8: Elionor, A Personal Life
* Chapter 9: Elionor's Last Days
Matèries
Història - Política
Biografia
Dones
URL
https:/​/​doi.org/​10.1007/​978-3-030-71028-6
What are the images?

The small images on the decorative ribbon correspond, from left to right, to the following documents: 1. James II orders the settlement of neighborhood disputes over an estate of the royal doctor Arnau de Vilanova in the city of Valencia. 1298 (ACA); 2. Contract between Guglielmo Neri de Santo Martino, a surgeon from Pisa, and the physician-surgeon from Majorca Pere Saflor, bachelor of medicine, to practise medicine and surgery under the latter’s direction, 1356 (ACM); 3. Valuation of the workshop of Guillem Metge, an apothecary from Barcelona, made by the apothecaries Miquel Tosell, Berenguer Duran and Vicenç Bonanat, for its sale to Llorenç Bassa, a fellow apothecary, 1364 (AHPB); 4. Peter III the Ceremonious regularizes the legal situation of Esteró, a Jewish female doctor from Vilafranca del Penedès, granting her an extraordinary license to practice medicine. 1384 (ACA); 5. Power of attorney of Margarida de Tornerons, a doctor in Prats de Molló and Vic, in order to recover the goods withheld from her by a third party in Vic, 1401 (ABEV); 6. Doctorate and teaching license of Narcís Solà, bachelor of medicine, issued by Bernat de Casaldòvol, doctor of medicine and chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine in Barcelona, 1526 (AHCB); and 7. Partnership between Joan Llunes and Joan Francesc Llunes, father and son, and Lluís Gual, the former’s son-in-law, surgeons of Caldes de Montbui, in order to practise the profession, 1579 (AHCB).

Centre de Documentació Ramon Llull

Lluís Cifuentes i Comamala
lluiscifuentes@ub.edu

Centre de Documentació Ramon Llull
Dept. de Filologia Catalana i Lingüística General
Universitat de Barcelona

Institut Interuniversitari Lopez Piñero

Carmel Ferragud Domingo
carmel.ferragud@uv.es

Institut Interuniversitari López Piñero
Dept. d’Història de la Ciència i Documentació
Universitat de València