This book is an innovative study offering the first examination of how three fourteenth-century English queens, Margaret of France, Isabella of France, and Philippa of Hainault, exercised power and authority. It frames its analysis around four major themes: gender; status; the concept of the crown; and power and authority.
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Table of Content
Modern Studies of Queenship Reconstructing Medieval Expectations The Queen as Intercessor: Power and Influence A Royal Institution: The Queen’s Household and Estates Motherhood, Matriarchy and the Royal Family Administrator of the Realm
About the author
Lisa Benz St. John is the 2011-2012 Visiting Medieval Fellow at Fordham University and currently a part-time lecturer at in the Department of History at Rutgers University.
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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 254 ● ISBN 9781137094322 ● File size 4.6 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US ● City New York ● Country US ● Published 2012 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4883629 ● Copy protection Social DRM
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