The Last Medieval Queens: English Queenship 1445-1503
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The Last Medieval Queens: English Queenship 1445-1503
Book Details
- Author
- J. L. Laynesmith
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Great Britain
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780199279562
- ISBN-10
- 019927956X
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ISBN: 019927956X
Author: Laynesmith, J. L.
Condition: New
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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