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Language
English
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The best-selling author of The Plantagenets traces the 15th-century civil wars that irrevocably shaped the British crown, particularly evaluating the roles of strong women including Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville and Margaret Beaufort in shifting power between two ruling families. Includes six maps and four genealogies.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this idealized-and largely mythical-notion of the medieval noblewoman still lingers. Yet the reality was very different, as Kelcey Wilson-Lee shows in this vibrant account of the five daughters of the great English king, Edward I, often known as Longshanks. The lives of these sisters-Eleanora, Joanna, Margaret, Mary and Elizabeth-ran the full gamut of experiences...
Author
Series
England's medieval queens volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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