The last medieval queens : English queenship 1445-1503
"The last medieval queens of England were Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne Neville, and Elizabeth of York - four very different women whose lives and queenship were dominated by the Wars of the Roses. This book is not a traditional biography but a thematic study of the ideology and practice of queenship. It examines the motivations behind the choice of the first English-born queens, the multi-faceted rituals of coronation, childbirth, and funeral, the divided loyalties between family and king, and the significance of a position at the heart of the English power structure that could only be filled by a woman. It sheds new light on the queens' struggles to defend their children's rights to the throne, and argues that ideologically and politically a queen was integral to the proper exercise of mature kingship in this period."--Jacket
collective biographies
xviii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780199247370, 9780199279562, 0199247374, 019927956X
53393157
1. Selecting Queens During the Wars of the Roses
2. Rituals of Queenship
3. Queens as Mothers
4. The Queen's Family
5. Court and Household
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