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She wolves: the notorious queens of England

By Norton , Elizabeth

Book information

Publisher
The History Press;Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts
ISBN
9780752469218, 9780752469225, 0752469215
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
698 kB (715135 bytes)
Pages
(272 pages) : illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
1066-1485;England;Great BritainKings and rulers;Queens;Queens--England;Biographie

Description

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. She Wolves reveals much about the role of the medieval queen and the evolution of the role that led, ultimately, to the reign of Elizabeth I, and a new concept of queenship.

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