Queens of the Age of Chivalry
History of the Queens of Medieval England Vol. III
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The historian and author of the Six Tudor Queens series turns her attention to the formidable females of the Plantagenet dynasty, many of whom defied the idea of royal brides as mere trophies and participated actively in the events that shaped the kingdoms of France and England in the Middle Ages.
The third volume of Alison Weir’s magisterial history of the queens of medieval England.
Medieval queens were seen as mere dynastic trophies – yet, as Alison Weir shows in this group biography, many of the Plantagenet queens of the High Middle Ages dramatically broke away from the restrictions imposed on their sex.
Using personal letters and fascinating sources, Weir evokes the lives of these five extraordinary women: Marguerite of France, Isabella of France, Philippa of Hainault, Anne of Bohemia and Isabella of Valois. At the same time, she recreates a truly astonishing period of history – the turbulent, brutal Age of Chivalry.