Medieval Royal Mistresses
Medieval Royal Mistresses

Author: Julia A Hickey

Publisher: Pen and Sword History

Published: 2023-01-30

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1399081977

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Marriage for Medieval kings was about politics, power and the provision of legitimate heirs. Mistresses were about love, lust and possession. It was a world that included kidnap, poison, murder, violation, public shaming and accusations of witchcraft. Ambition and quick wits as well as beauty were essential attributes for any royal mistress. Infamy, assassination and imprisonment awaited some royal mistresses who tumbled from favour while others disappeared into obscurity or respectable lives as married women and were quickly forgotten. Meet Nest of Wales, born in turbulent times, whose abduction started a war; Alice Perrers and Jane Shore labelled ‘whores’ and ‘wantons’; Katherine Swynford who turned the medieval world upside down with a royal happy-ever-after and Rosamund Clifford who left history and stepped into legend. Discover how serial royal womanisers married off their discarded mistresses to bind their allies close. Explore the semi-official roles of some mistresses; the illegitimate children who became kings; secret marriage ceremonies; Edith Forne Sigulfson and Lady Eleanor Talbot who sought atonement through religion as well as the aristocratic women who became the victims of royal lust. Most of the shameful women who shared the beds of medieval kings were silenced, besmirched or consigned to the footnotes of a patriarchal worldview but they negotiated paths between the private and public spheres of medieval court life - changing history as they went.

Re-reading The Excursion
Re-reading The Excursion

Author: Sally Bushell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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Re-Reading The Excursion: Narrative, Response and the Wordsworthian Dramatic Voice transforms contemporary critical understanding of The Excursion and of the place of this long poem in the Wordsworthian canon. Sally Bushell argues that the poem, which has suffered at the hands of critics for most of the twentieth century, has been unfairly judged according to a Coleridgean rather than a Wordsworthian definition of "philosophy"-that it has been read as a didactic work, rather than one which uses its dramatic form to teach its readers to think for themselves. She offers a new reading, based on her view that The Excursion is about providing the readers with moral habits and mental constructs by which to learn, not simply telling them what to think. The conclusion reached is that Wordsworth is not just the "egotistical" poet of The Prelude, interested largely in the development of his own imaginative powers, but one who goes on to explore the limits of subjectivity and the importance of different kinds of imaginative links between individuals.

Catalog
Catalog

Author: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library. Rare Book Room

Publisher:

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 830

ISBN-13:

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Antient Funeral Monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent
Antient Funeral Monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent

Author: John Weever

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-20

Total Pages: 808

ISBN-13: 9780282753382

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Excerpt from Antient Funeral Monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent: With the Dissolved Monasteries Therein Contained; Their Founders, and What Eminent Persons Have Been Therein Interred; As Also, the Death and Burial of Certain of the Blood-Royal, Nobility and Gentry of These Kingdoms, Entombed in Foreign Nations But, alas l this worthy repairer of eating-time's ruins, this pii I L A D E L PH U s, in preferving old monuments, and antient records: this magazine, this treafury, this fiore-houfe. Of antiquities, fir R O B E R T C o T T o N, is now lately deceafed, whofe excellent good parts are well conceived in a funeral elegy which hath happily come into my hands, and which I think fitting here to be inferted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.