Magic, Women, and the Carolingian Court
Martha Rampton
This chapter examines two instances from Carolingian courts where love and birth magic featured in high-stakes politics. Here, three queens found themselves at the epicenter of highly consequential intense imperial All were accused untoward sexual license, those accusations accompanied by allegations magic. However, each case, charge sorcery was not really about per se; it motivated women's political position. The notion that Judith, Waldrada, Theutberga could have employed arts credible to all men who addressed subject, but equally true case marginally effective easily undone. worst both worlds. It stripped women power accessible through use magic, did exonerate them crime trying it.
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