The last medieval queens : English queenship 1445-1503

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781280846748
ISBN: 1280846747
ISBN: 1429469323
ISBN: 9781429469326
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 294 pages, 8 pages of plates) : illustrations, genealogical tables
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Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally published: 2004. "Joint winner of the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Prize 2005"--Page 4 of cover
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-286) and index.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.