The Last Plantagenet Consorts
Author: Kavita Mudan Finn
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-06-08
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 0230392997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of fifteenth-century British queens through literature and history.
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Later Plantagenet and the Wars of the Roses Consorts
Author: Aidan Norrie
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-03-03
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 3030948862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the lives and tenures of the consorts of the Plantagenet dynasty during the later Middle Ages, encompassing two major conflicts—the Hundred Years’ War and the Wars of the Roses. The figures in this volume include well-known consorts such as the “She Wolves” Isabella of France and Margaret of Anjou, as well as queens who are often overlooked, such as Philippa of Hainault and Joan of Navarre. These innovative and authoritative biographies bring a fresh approach to the consorts of this period—challenging negative perceptions created by complex political circumstances and the narrow expectations of later writers, and demonstrating the breadth of possibilities in later medieval queenship. Their conclusions shed fresh light on both the politics of the day and the wider position of women in this age. This volume and its companions reveal the changing nature of English consortship from the Norman Conquest to today.
Norman to Early Plantagenet Consorts
Author: Aidan Norrie
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-05-16
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 3031210689
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the emergence of the queen consort in medieval England, beginning with the pre-Conquest era and ending with death of Margaret of France, second wife of Edward I, in 1307. Though many of the figures in this volumes are well known, such as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Eleanor of Castille, the chapters here are unique in the equal consideration given to the tenures of the lesser known consorts, including: Adeliza of Louvain, second wife of Henry I; Margaret of France, wife of Henry the Young King; and even Isabella of Gloucester, the first wife of King John. These innovative and thematic biographies highlight the evolution of the office of the queen and the visible roles that consorts played, which were integral to the creation of the identity of early English monarchy. This volume and its companions reveal the changing nature of English consortship from the Norman Conquest to today.
Queens Consort
Author: Lisa Hilton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-11-15
Total Pages: 777
ISBN-13: 1639360646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Plantagenet Queens & Consorts
Author: Steven J. Corvi
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2018-12-15
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1445669609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe lives and political influence of eleven Plantagenet queens and consorts; the female DNA of a dynasty and 250 years of English history.
Shakespeare’s Foreign Queens
Author: Sandra Logan
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-05-11
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1137534842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines Shakespeare’s depiction of foreign queens as he uses them to reveal and embody tensions within early modern English politics. Linking early modern and contemporary political theory and concerns through the concepts of fragmented identity, hospitality, citizenship, and banishment, Sandra Logan takes up a set of questions not widely addressed by scholars of early modern queenship. How does Shakespeare’s representation of these queens challenge the opposition between friend and enemy that ostensibly defines the context of the political? And how do these queens expose the abusive potential of the sovereign? Focusing on Katherine of Aragon in Henry VIII, Hermione in The Winter’s Tale, Tamora in Titus Andronicus, and Margaret in the first history tetralogy, Logan considers them as means for exploring conditions of vulnerability, alienation, and exclusion common to subjects of every social position, exposing the sovereign himself as the true enemy of the state.
Tudor and Stuart Consorts
Author: Aidan Norrie
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-07-20
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 3030951979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the lives and tenures of all the consorts of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs of England between 1485 and 1714, as well as the wives of the two Lords Protector during the Commonwealth. The figures in Tudor and Stuart Consorts are both incredibly familiar—especially the six wives of Henry VIII—and exceedingly unfamiliar, such as George of Denmark, the husband of Queen Anne. These innovative and authoritative biographies recognise the important role consorts played in a period before constitutional monarchy: in addition to correcting popular assumptions that are based on limited historical evidence, the chapters provide a fuller picture of the role of consort that goes beyond discussions of exceptionalism and subversion. This volume and its companions reveal the changing nature of English consortship from the Norman Conquest to today.
Telltale Women
Author: Allison Machlis Meyer
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 1496224442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTelltale Women fundamentally reimagines the relationship between the history play and its source material as an intertextual one, presenting evidence for a new narrative about how--and why--these genres disparately chronicle the histories of royal women. Allison Machlis Meyer challenges established perceptions of source study, historiography, and the staging of gender politics in well-known drama by arguing that chronicles and political histories frequently value women's political interventions and use narrative techniques to invest their voices with authority. Dramatists who used these sources for their history plays thus encountered a historical record that offered surprisingly ample precedents for depicting women's perspectives and political influence as legitimate, and writers for the commercial theater grappled with such precedents by reshaping source material to create stage representations of royal women that condemned queenship and female power. By tracing how the sanctioning of women's political participation changes from the narrative page to the dramatic stage, Meyer demonstrates that gender politics in both canonical and noncanonical history plays emerge from playwrights' intertextual engagements with a rich alternative view of women in the narrative historiography of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Mary I in Writing
Author: Valerie Schutte
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-04-25
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 3030951286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book—along with its companion volume Writing Mary I: History, Historiography, and Fiction—centers on representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of writing that queen into literature and other textual sources. It spans an equally wide chronological and geographical scope, accounting for the years prior to her accession in July 1553 through the centuries that followed her death in November 1558 and for her reach across England, and into Ireland, Spain, Italy, Russia, and Africa. Its intent is to foreground words and language—written, spoken, and acted out—and, by extension, to draw out matters of and conversations about rhetoric, imagery, methodology, source base, genre, narrative, form, and more. Taken together, these two volumes find in England’s first crowned queen regnant an incomparable opportunity to ask new questions and seek new answers that deepen our understanding of queenship, the early modern era, and modern popular culture.
The Name of a Queen
Author: C. Beem
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-04-17
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1137272023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKItinerarium ad Windsor concerns a central question of the Elizabethan era: Why should a woman be allowed to rule with the same powers as a king? The man who poses this controversial question within Itinerarium is none other than Queen Elizabeth's powerful favorite Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. On hand to provide answers are the statesman and poet Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, and William Fleetwood antiquary, Recorder of London, and dutiful chronicler of their 1575 conversation. This critical edition of Itinerarium reproduces Fleetwood's text with annotations and a host of interpretive and contextualizing essays from leading scholars. Taken together, they constitute the definitive introduction to this remarkable discussion of regnant queenship, providing a valuable tool for understanding contemporary notions of and underlying fears concerning the efficacy and desirability of female rule in Elizabethan England.
