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Author : Steven J. Corvi
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 22,12 MB
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445669609
The lives and political influence of eleven Plantagenet queens and consorts; the female DNA of a dynasty and 250 years of English history.
Author : Steven Corvi
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,95 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445669595
The lives and political influence of twelve Plantagenet queens and consorts; the female DNA of a dynasty and 250 years of English history.
Author : H. Eugene Lehman
Publisher : Author House
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 33,98 MB
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1463430558
This book, Lives of Reigning and Consort Queens of England: Englands History through the Eyes of its Queens, is a factual narrative on lives of Norman, Plantagenet, Tudor, Stuart, Hanover, and Windsorqueens covering a millenium of English History. The biographical portraits start at the close of the Dark Ages with the Norman Conquest of 1066, and continue to Modern Time in the life of present Queen Elizabeth II. This narratiev of fifty short chronologicalbiographies gives a view ijnto life and courtly customs from an age far removed from the present toward the way of life we know today. Through the lives of these women, one sees Englands history unroll. Although the narratives are brief, they bring individuals to life withoutjudgmental prejudice as unique personalities. One of the fifty personalities, 7 were reigning queens, 38 were queen consort wives of moonarchs, and 5 were wives of favorites who did not reign, but who played a significant role during the life of a ruling king. This sample of wo0men on the throne, or close to the throne is too large to expect any single quality can characterize them all: Some served as exemplary reigning queens, or as consorts whom actively supported a sovereign husband or son. Some assertively played the part of regent as a significantr power behind the throne. Some infliuenced historic events forr eliegious reasons. Many avoided political involvement, but ahd great influemnce on culture and custom. Some had personal qualities that made them inherently interesting and desetrving of friendship. A relatively small number of the queens were entirely unsuited to be queens. Some queen consorts resisted familiarity and remain enigmatic effigies. Some were apwns manipulated by historic events of the time and deprived them of opportunity to elave a personal mark of hsitory. Others served chiefly as supportive mothers and wives.
Author : Kavita Mudan Finn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 2012-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230392997
An examination of fifteenth-century British queens through literature and history.
Author : Aidan Norrie
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 29,20 MB
Release : 2023-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 3030948862
This book examines the lives and tenures of the consorts of the Plantagenet dynasty during the later Middle Ages, encompassing two major conflicts—the Hundred Years’ War and the Wars of the Roses. The figures in this volume include well-known consorts such as the “She Wolves” Isabella of France and Margaret of Anjou, as well as queens who are often overlooked, such as Philippa of Hainault and Joan of Navarre. These innovative and authoritative biographies bring a fresh approach to the consorts of this period—challenging negative perceptions created by complex political circumstances and the narrow expectations of later writers, and demonstrating the breadth of possibilities in later medieval queenship. Their conclusions shed fresh light on both the politics of the day and the wider position of women in this age. This volume and its companions reveal the changing nature of English consortship from the Norman Conquest to today.
Author : Aidan Norrie
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,92 MB
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 3031210689
This book examines the emergence of the queen consort in medieval England, beginning with the pre-Conquest era and ending with death of Margaret of France, second wife of Edward I, in 1307. Though many of the figures in this volumes are well known, such as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Eleanor of Castille, the chapters here are unique in the equal consideration given to the tenures of the lesser known consorts, including: Adeliza of Louvain, second wife of Henry I; Margaret of France, wife of Henry the Young King; and even Isabella of Gloucester, the first wife of King John. These innovative and thematic biographies highlight the evolution of the office of the queen and the visible roles that consorts played, which were integral to the creation of the identity of early English monarchy. This volume and its companions reveal the changing nature of English consortship from the Norman Conquest to today.
Author : Lisa Hilton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 32,1 MB
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1639360646
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Author : Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 24,94 MB
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 131707288X
Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics examines the roles that queens consort played in dynastic politics and cultural transfer between their natal and marital courts during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This collection of essays analyses the part that these queens played in European politics, showing how hard and soft power, high politics and cultural influences, cannot be strictly separated. It shows that the root of these consorts’ power lay in their dynastic networks and the extent to which they cultivated them. The consorts studied in this book come from territories such as Austria, Braunschweig, Hanover, Poland, Portugal, Prussia and Saxony and travel to, among other places, Britain, Naples, Russia, Spain and Sweden. The various chapters address different types of cultural manifestation, among them collecting, portraiture, panegyric poetry, libraries, theatre and festivals, learning, genealogical literature and architecture. The volume significantly shifts the direction of scholarship by moving beyond a focus on individual historical women to consider ‘queens consort’ as a category, making it valuable reading for students and scholars of early modern gender and political history.
Author : Kavita Mudan Finn
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Queens
ISBN :
Author : Alison Weir
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,43 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Medieval queens were seen as mere dynastic trophies, yet many of the Plantagenet queens of the high Middle Ages dramatically broke away from the restrictions imposed on their sex, as Alison Weir shows in this gripping group biography of England's fourteenth-century consorts. Using personal letters and wonderfully vivid sources, Alison Weir evokes the lives of five remarkable queens -- Marguerite of France, Isabella of France, Philippa of Hainault, Anne of Bohemia and Isabella of Valois. The turbulent, brutal Age of Chivalry witnessed the Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the Hundred Years' War against France and savage baronial wars against the monarchy in which these queens were passionately involved. Queens of the Age of Chivalry brilliantly recreates this truly dramatic period of history through the lives of five extraordinary women.