"An important contribution to our understanding of premodern queenship and, indeed, of late medieval monarchy itself."-John Watkins, University of Minnesota "Simultaneously a carefully constructed biography of a particular historical figure, a thorough study of queenship in bureaucratic context, and a long-overdue call for historians to reexamine our ideas about monarchy in general... [The King's Other Body] should become a standard on reading lists."-Renaissance Quarterly Theresa Earenfight is Associate Professor of History at Seattle University.