He mercurial often violent world of medieval state craft England’s medieval ueens were elemental in shaping the history of the monarchy and the nation Lisa Hilton’s meticulously researched new work explores the lives of the women crowned between and She reconsiders the fictions surrounding well.
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PDF Lisa Hilton ì ueens Consort Kindle ´ ì ueens kindle, consort mobile, ueens Consort KindleIn the period between the Norman Conuest and the accession of Mary Tudor in the sixteenth century no woman ruled England as ueen in her own right The role and status of king were constantly in the process of redefinition an ongoing negotiation between royal ecclesiastical and aristocratic powers but they remained throughout essentially constitutional their authority enshrined in and upheld by law No euivalent constitutional role existed for the king's consort Yet between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries English ueenship evolved an identity of its own an identity predicated on but not limited to marriage to the king The st
PDF Lisa Hilton ì ueens Consort Kindle ´ ì ueens kindle, consort mobile, ueens Consort KindleI'm trying to clear out some bookshelves and the space beside my bed by getting rid of reading books that I've had for years This is one that I picked up for some fun reading yes biographies of medieval ueens counts in my world as light readingThis book starts with Matilda of Flanders wife of William the Conueror and ends with Elizabeth of York wife of Henry VII Not to spoil things but by the end of the book they are all deadThe author does a good job within the confines of the book After all if you're covering a lot of ueens in one book you don't have much space for each That said this book included information than I've found in most places about Berengaria of Navarre The book doesn't allow the author to ignore the less interesting wives and just talk about Eleanor of AuitaineObviously this book is not going to give you all the inform
PDF Lisa Hilton ì ueens Consort Kindle ´ ì ueens kindle, consort mobile, ueens Consort KindleI picked up ueens Consort because it looked like it'd be useful to me in understanding the portrayal of ueens in literature in the medieval period It turned out to be interesting in general covering the lives of
PDF Lisa Hilton ì ueens Consort Kindle ´ ì ueens kindle, consort mobile, ueens Consort KindlePersonally I found ueens Consort England’s Medieval ueens to be a work of see sawing uality that landed on the negative side of the things Lisa Hilton has given herself a thankless task in trying to condense the lives of twenty ueens wh
PDF Lisa Hilton ì ueens Consort Kindle ´ ì ueens kindle, consort mobile, ueens Consort KindleIt's a tribute to my stubbornness that I finished this book I took a break of six months and almost didn't bother picking it up again I managed to crawl through it finally by
PDF Lisa Hilton ì ueens Consort Kindle ´ ì ueens kindle, consort mobile, ueens Consort Kindleso after waiting 8 weeks to get this from the library I really wanted to enjoy this book Let's face it this book should have been heaven for me I totally geek out on medieval history women studies and religious history It should have been a fabulous read I was very excited to get a different perspective on Eleanor of Auitaine and Isabella of France but I was particularly to read about English ueen consorts I have only read about on the fringes of other histories or biographies Boy was I disappointedThings started off strong and I did enjoy myself through the chapter on Eleanor of Auitaine
PDF Lisa Hilton ì ueens Consort Kindle ´ ì ueens kindle, consort mobile, ueens Consort KindleThis is an excellent book if anyone wants to learn of the medieval ueens of England The books excels in many parts and I learned a lot from it about the Anarchy period and the civil war between Matilda and Stephen and the important role Stephen's wife also named Matilda played in her husband's rule and repelling her rival once she was in England I did not know a lot about William the Conueror's wife before reading this only the basics or her successors Henry I's wives Edith of Scotland who later renamed herself Matilda and Adeliza of Louvain However there were some parts in which the book's credibility went downhill Starting with Eleanor of Auitaine which I agree with the author regarding the many myths surrounding this woman that either extol her or undermine her But she seemed to focus a lot on her own views instead of what the primary documentation said to 'prove' that when it came to 'great' ueens like in h
PDF Lisa Hilton ì ueens Consort Kindle ´ ì ueens kindle, consort mobile, ueens Consort Kindlefree review copy from publisher via NetGalley At first glance this looked similar to Helen Castor’s “She Wolves” But Castor focuses on the misogyny of the times the individual powerful women who took control of their own destinies in spite of it
PDF Lisa Hilton ì ueens Consort Kindle ´ ì ueens kindle, consort mobile, ueens Consort KindleI'm back on the history reading kick and picked this book up at BN while visiting my son in Connecticut This is really my kind of book I loved all 482 pages and would have gladly read But don't pick this one up if you are looking for wild interpretation or speculation This book is serious history and Ms Hilton uses lots of primary and secondary sources for her profiles If you want romantic stories made up dialog or other flights of fancy you won't find it here The author gives us her profiles based on what is found in charters comtemporary writingsand other official documents that speak about these remarkable womenI've read some about almost all of these ueens and uite a bit about some but I always learn something With this book I learned a lot and enjoyed every minute of it The most fascinating to me are the ueens who immediately followed Mathilda of Flanders William the Conueror's ueen I've read about her in other works
PDF Lisa Hilton ì ueens Consort Kindle ´ ì ueens kindle, consort mobile, ueens Consort KindleGames of Thrones has a great deal to answer for And I'm not just saying that because I love both the TV and book series and the general upsurge in all things medieval and Middle Ages from video games to historical fiction that this interest in a brutal bloody and hierarchical past has sparked into an inferno Game of Thrones has ignited a powerful and at times consuming fascination with the endlessly enigmatic medieval era and this has furious trend has seen a monstrous proliferation from new history on the middle ages new video games detailing historical reality of medieval fantasy and an