The Last Medieval Queens : English Queenship 1445-1503 Hardback
by Dr J. L. Laynesmith
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The last medieval queens of England were Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne Neville, and Elizabeth of York - four very different women whose lives and queenship were dominated by the Wars of the Roses.
This book is not a traditional biography but a thematic study of the ideology and practice of queenship.
It examines the motivations behind the choice of the first English-born queens, the multi-faceted rituals of coronation, childbirth, and funeral, the divided loyalties between family and king, and the significance of a position at the heart of the English power structure that could only be filled by a woman.
It sheds new light on the queens' struggles to defend their children's rights to the throne, and argues that ideologically and politically a queen was integral to the proper exercise of mature kingship in this period.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:312 pages, 5 family trees, 8pp halftone plates
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:12/02/2004
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- ISBN:9780199247370
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:312 pages, 5 family trees, 8pp halftone plates
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:12/02/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199247370