The Last Medieval Queens. English Queenship 1445-1503
Inbunden bok.
Nära nyskick. Skyddsomslag i nära nyskick. Oxford University Press. 2004. XVIII+294 s. + 8 planschsidor. Pappband. Skyddsomslag. (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).
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 0199247374
- Titel
- The last medieval queens - English queenship 1445-1503
- Författare
- Laynesmith, J. L
- Utgivningsår
- 2004
- Omfång
- 294 sidor
- Språk
- English