Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens from Eleanor of Aquitaine to Elizabeth of York - Softcover

Hilton, Lisa

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9781605981055: Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens from Eleanor of Aquitaine to Elizabeth of York

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1605981052 ISBN 13: 9781605981055

Publisher: Pegasus Books, 2010

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Lisa Hilton's illuminating new book explores the lives of the twenty women who were crowned queen between 1066 and 1503. War, adultery, witchcraft, child abuse, murder--and occasionally even love--formed English queenship, but so too did patronage, learning, and fashion. Lovers of history will enjoy a dramatic narrative that presents an exceptional group of women whose personal ambitions, triumphs, and failures helped to give birth to the modern state.

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Review:

a highly readable book.. it has a good story to tell (Michael Prestwich BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE)

Critic's Choice: "a procession of Mathildas, Isabelles, Elizabeths and Eleanors who were, as Hilton shows, more than mere corollaries of their husbands" (Lucy Moore DAILY MAIL)

Reading this stimulating pageant of a book.. one frequently shudders at the fate of women in bygone ages (Antonia Fraser MAIL ON SUNDAY)

a fascinating read (CHOICE)

as Hilton displays so effectively through the depth of her research, no two queens were the same.. a fascinating read (Mary Fitzgerald NEW STATESMAN)

why should the men get all the credit? Hilton redresses the imbalance in this absorbing study of 20 queens (TATLER)

Lisa Hilton's corrective Queens Consort illuminates these 20 lives. (Helen Brown DAILY TELEGRAPH)

Juicy tome exploring what it really meant to be married to a medieval king (EASY LIVING)

A treasure trove of little-known facts, this book provides us with a more rounded picture of English history (David McLaurin THE TABLET)

the women's stories are meticulously and confidently written.. definitely worth a read (Sheefa Shiraz FAMILY HISTORY MAGAZINE)

Book Description:

England from the perspective of its consort queens - a distaff history of the nation from 1066 to 1503.

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