Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Later Plantagenet and the Wars of the Roses consorts : power, influence, and dynasty / Aidan Norrie, Carolyn Harris, J.L. Laynesmith, Danna R. Messer, Elena Woodacre, editors
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022

Copies

Description 1 online resource
Series Queenship and power
Queenship and power.
Contents Chapter 1: The Later Medieval English Consorts -- Part I: The Consorts of the Hundred Years War -- Chapter 2: The Consorts of the Hundred Years War -- Chapter 3: Isabella of France: She-Wolf and Rebel Queen? -- Chapter 4: Philippa of Hainault: Dignity, Duty, and Display -- Chapter 5: Anne of Bohemia: Overcoming Infertility -- Chapter 6: Isabella of Valois: The Child Queen -- Chapter 7: Joan of Navarre: Beloved Queen and (Step)mother or Unbeloved Witch? -- Chapter 8: Katherine of Valois: The Vicissitudes of Reputation -- Chapter 9: A Dower for Life: Understanding the Dowers of Englands Medieval Queens -- Part II: Queens Consort of the Wars of the Roses -- Chapter 10: Queens Consort of the Wars of the Roses -- Chapter 11: English Queenship and the Wars of the Roses -- Chapter 12: Margaret of Anjou: Passionate Mother -- Chapter 13: Elizabeth Woodville: The Knights Widow -- Chapter 14: Anne Neville: Heiress and Highest Ornament of her House -- Chapter 15: Epilogue: Foreign Women as Consorts
Summary This impressive volume brings together the best new work on queens consort of late medieval England. A model for how to present a coherent overview of a subject as complex as these queens, a dozen scholars craft vivid and rich yet concise portraits of queens from Isabella of France to Anne Neville. Theresa M. Earenfight, Seattle University, USA This book examines the lives and tenures of the consorts of the Plantagenet dynasty during the later Middle Ages, encompassing two major conflictsthe Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses. The figures in this volume include well-known consorts such as the She Wolves Isabella of France and Margaret of Anjou, as well as queens who are often overlooked, such as Philippa of Hainault and Joan of Navarre. These innovative and authoritative biographies bring a fresh approach to the consorts of this periodchallenging negative perceptions created by complex political circumstances and the narrow expectations of later writers, and demonstrating the breadth of possibilities in later medieval queenship. Their conclusions shed fresh light on both the politics of the day and the wider position of women in this age. This volume and its companions reveal the changing nature of English consortship from the Norman Conquest to today. Aidan Norrie is Lecturer in History and Programme Leader at the University Campus North Lincolnshire, UK, and the Managing Editor of The London Journal. Carolyn Harris is Instructor in History at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, Canada, and a regular royal commentator in Canadian media. J.L. Laynesmith is Visiting Research Fellow in Medieval Studies at the University of Reading, UK. Danna R. Messer is Senior Acquisitions Editor at Arc Humanities Press, and the Executive Editor of The Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages. Elena Woodacre is Reader in Renaissance History at the University of Winchester, UK, Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Studies Journal, and the founder of the Royal Studies Network
Notes Includes index
Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed March 20th, 2023)
Subject Plantagenet, House of.
SUBJECT Plantagenet, House of fast
Subject Women -- Great Britain -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500
Women -- Middle Ages
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- 14th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056757
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Norris, Aidan
ISBN 9783030948863
3030948862