We see events such as the murder of Becket, Magna Carta and the birth of parliaments from a new perspective. Women often broke through medieval constraints to exercise power and influence, for good and sometimes for ill.Īlison Weir's ground-breaking history of the queens of medieval England now moves into a period of even higher drama, from 1154 to 1291- years of chivalry, dynastic ambition, conflict with the church, baronial wars, and the all-pervading bonds of feudalism. Crusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, queen seductresses, learned queens, queens in battle, queens who enlivened England with the romantic culture of southern Europe - these determined The Plantagenet queens of England played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history.
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