The Last Medieval Queens : English Queenship 1445-1503

Name: The Last Medieval Queens
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199247370
Price: 11150 KES
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ISBN: 9780199247370

by Dr J. L. Laynesmith

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0199247374

ISBN-13 9780199247370

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 12th, 2004

Print length 312 Pages

Weight 612 grams

Dimensions 16.50 x 24.30 x 2.60 cms

Product Classification: England c 1000 CE to c 1500 British & Irish history Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 History European history

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What sort of woman was chosen to be queen? This book sets out to answer important questions about the nature and role of queenship in the last years of medieval England. It considers what it meant to be a queen during these turbulent times, and examines the ways in which these women interpreted their roles.

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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