Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens

by Lisa Hilton

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

England's medieval queens were elemental in shaping the history of the nation. In an age where all politics were family politics, dynastic marriages placed English queens at the very centre of power - the king's bed. From Matilda of Flanders, the Conqueror's queen, to Elizabeth of York, the first Tudor consort, England's queens fashioned the nature of monarchy and influenced the direction of the state. Occupying a unique position in the mercurial, often violent world of medieval state-craft, English queens had...

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  • ISBN10 0297857495
  • ISBN13 9780297857495
  • Publish Date 30 December 2010 (first published 9 October 2008)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Orion Publishing Co
  • Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Edition Digital original
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 576
  • Language English