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Queens of the age of chivalry, England's fourteenth-century consorts 1299-1409, Alison Weir

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Queens of the age of chivalry, England's fourteenth-century consorts 1299-1409, Alison Weir

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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collective biography

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Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Queens of the age of chivalry

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bibliography

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Alison Weir

Sub title

England's fourteenth-century consorts 1299-1409

Summary

Medieval queens were seen as mere dynastic trophies, yet many of the Plantagenet queens of the High Middle Ages dramatically broke away from the restrictions imposed on their sex, as Alison Weir shows in this gripping group biography of England's fourteenth-century consorts. Using personal letters and wonderfully vivid sources, Weir evokes the lives of five remarkable queens: Marguerite of France, Isabella of France, Philippa of Hainault, Anne of Bohemia and Isabella of Valois. The turbulent, brutal Age of Chivalry witnessed the Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the Hundred Years War and savage baronial wars against the monarchy in which these queens were passionately involved. Queens of the Age of Chivalry brilliantly recreates this truly dramatic period of history through the lives of five extraordinary women

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