id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 8336h131b6k Megan L. Welton Multiplex Virtus: Queens, Ruling Women, and the Discourse of Political Virtue in Tenth-Century Europe 1904 .txt text/plain 281 9 33 In order to understand the elements of virtus and to see how it shaped early medieval political structures, it is necessary to investigate the language embedded in the widest range of available sources. It focuses particularly on the ways in which the early medieval discourse of political virtus shaped the actions and decisions of queens and empresses in this period. cache/8336h131b6k.txt txt/8336h131b6k.txt