She wolves : the notorious queens of England

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She Wolves is a history of the 'bad girls' of England's medieval royal dynasties the queens who earned themselves the reputation of being somehow notorious. Some of them are well known and have been the subject of biographies Eleanor of Aquitaine, Emma of Normandy, Isabella of France and Anne Boleyn, for example while others have not been written about outside academic journals. The appeal of these notorious queens, apart from their shared taste for witchcraft, murder, adultery and incest, is that, because they were notorious, they attracted a great deal of attention during their lifetimes. Sh. Read more... Abstract: She Wolves is a history of the 'bad girls' of England's medieval royal dynasties the queens who earned themselves the reputation of being somehow notorious. Some of them are well known and have been the subject of biographies Eleanor of Aquitaine, Emma of Normandy, Isabella of France and Anne Boleyn, for example while others have not been written about outside academic journals. The appeal of these notorious queens, apart from their shared taste for witchcraft, murder, adultery and incest, is that, because they were notorious, they attracted a great deal of attention during their lifetimes. Sh