1. Examples of well-known biographies of these two men include Joseph R. Strayer, The Reign of Philip the Fair (Princeton NJ, 1980);
2. and Jaime Vicens Vives, Juan II de Aragon (1398–1479): Monarquia y revolución en la España del siglo XV (Barcelona, 1953).
3. Theresa Earenfight, “Without the Persona of the Prince: Kings, Queens and the Idea of Monarchy in Late Medieval Europe,” Gender and History, 19.1 (2007), 10.
4. The Bible (Latin Vulgate version), I Peter 3:1. For Paul see Colossians 3:18, “mulieres subditae estote viris sicut oportet in Domino” or “wives be subject to your husbands as it behoveth in the Lord.” Also Ephesians 5:22–3 “mulieres viris suis subditae sint sicut Domino quoniam vir caput est mulieris sicut Christus caput est ecclesiae ipse salvator corporis” or “let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the saviour of the body.” Margaret R. Sommerville, Sex and Subjection: Attitudes to Women in Early Modern Society (London, 1995), 57.
5. Ernst H. Kantorowicz, The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology (Princeton NJ, 1957).