Description
Title: Queens of the Age of Chivalry: England’s Medieval Queens
Author: WEIR ALISON
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/11/2022
Imprint: JONATHAN CAPE
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: Active
The third volume of Alison Weir’s magisterial history of the queens of medieval England
The third volume of Alison Weir’s magisterial history of the queens of medieval England
Medieval queens were seen as mere dynastic trophies, yet many of the Plantagenet queens of the high middle ages dramatically broke away from the restrictions imposed on their sex, as Alison Weir shows in this gripping group biography of England’s fourteenth-century consorts.
Using personal letters and wonderfully vivid sources, Alison Weir evokes the lives of five remarkable queens- Marguerite of France, Isabella of France, Philippa of Hainault, Anne of Bohemia and Isabella of Valois.
The turbulent, brutal Age of Chivalry witnessed the Black Death, the Peasants’ Revolt, the Hundred Years’ War against France and savage baronial wars against the monarchy in which these queens were passionately involved. Queens of the Age of Chivalry brilliantly recreates this truly dramatic period of history through the lives of five extraordinary women.
ISBN: 9781910702123
Pages: 544
Edition: 01