The Last Medieval Queens : English Queenship 1445-1503
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
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:
British & Irish historyEarly history: c 500 to c 1450/1500
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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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