The Last Medieval Queens : English Queenship 1445-1503
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
019927956X
ISBN-13
9780199279562
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 16th, 2005
Print length
312 Pages
Weight
488 grams
Dimensions
23.10 x 15.90 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
British & Irish historyEarly history: c 500 to c 1450/1500
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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 sets out to answer important questions about the nature and role of queenship in the last years of medieval England.
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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