Earched new work explores the lives of the 20 women crowned between 1066 and 1503 She reconsiders the fictions surrounding well known figures like Eleanor of Auitaine illuminates the lives of forgotten ueens such as.
[Read] ➲ ueens Consort ➮ Lisa Hilton – Sallow.co Occupying a uniue position in the mercurial often violent world of medieval state craft England’s medieval ueens were elemental in shaping the history of the monarchy and the nation Lisa Hilton’s Occupying a uniue position in the mercurial often violent world of medieval state craft England’s medieval ueens were elemental in shaping the history of the monarchy and the nation Lisa Hilton’s meticulously res.
ueens book consort pdf ueens Consort KindleEarched new work explores the lives of the 20 women crowned between 1066 and 1503 She reconsiders the fictions surrounding well known figures like Eleanor of Auitaine illuminates the lives of forgotten ueens such as.
PDF/EPUB Lisa Hilton Ñ PDF/EPUB ueens Consort Kindle À Ñ sallow.co ueens book, consort pdf, ueens Consort KindleIn the period between the Norman Conuest and the accession of Mary Tudor in the sixteenth century no woman ruled England as ueen in her own right The role and status of king were constantly in the process of redefinition an ongoing negotiation between royal ecclesiastical and aristocratic powers but they remained throughout essentially constitutional their authority enshrined in and upheld by law No euivalent constitutional role existed for the king's consort Yet between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries English ueenship evolved an identity of its own an identity predicated on but not l
PDF/EPUB Lisa Hilton Ñ PDF/EPUB ueens Consort Kindle À Ñ sallow.co ueens book, consort pdf, ueens Consort KindleI'm trying to clear out some bookshelves and the space beside my bed by getting rid of reading books that I've had for years This is one that I picked up for some fun reading yes biographies of medieval ueens counts in my world as light readingThis book starts with Matilda of Flanders wife of William the Conueror and ends with Elizabeth of York wife of Henry VII Not to spoil things but by the end of the book they are all deadThe author does a good job within the confines of the book After all if you're covering a lot of ueens in one book you don't have much space for each That said this book included information than I've found in most places about Berengaria of Navarre The book doesn't allow the author to ignore the less interesting wives and just talk about Eleanor of AuitaineObviously this book is not going to give
PDF/EPUB Lisa Hilton Ñ PDF/EPUB ueens Consort Kindle À Ñ sallow.co ueens book, consort pdf, ueens Consort KindleI picked up ueens Consort because it looked like it'd be useful to me in understanding the portrayal of ueens in literature in the medieval period It turned out to be interesting in general covering the lives of ueens who are little remembered now as well as the notorious ones and trying to portray them fairly rather than as their detractors would have liked them to be remembered or similarly with reference to their flaws as well as the propaganda intended to make them into heroines Lisa Hilton is after a balanced and truthful portrayal It's a good survey of how the role of ueen consort developedI also found her references to the literature mostly in the conclusion to the book and to concepts I've encountered only in literature until now the idea of a ueen as a peaceweaver which I knew of through Beowulf; obviously the idea of a diplomatic marria
PDF/EPUB Lisa Hilton Ñ PDF/EPUB ueens Consort Kindle À Ñ sallow.co ueens book, consort pdf, ueens Consort KindlePersonally I found ueens Consort England’s Medieval ueens to be a work of see sawing uality that landed on the negative side of the things Lisa Hilton has given herself a thankless task in trying to condense the lives of twenty ueens who ruled England from the time of the Norman Conuest to the beginnings of Tudor rule – all in all about four hundred years’ worth of history – into the space of five hundred pages with each chapter needing to at least to pretend to be a biography of the ueen at its focus Additionally Hilton is hamstrung by various problems such as a paucity of evidence a notoriety that needs to be thoroughly examined or ueens who appeared to do little at allSome of the individual biographies were a slog to get through uite dry in tone and weighed down by a mass of names and compressed history
PDF/EPUB Lisa Hilton Ñ PDF/EPUB ueens Consort Kindle À Ñ sallow.co ueens book, consort pdf, ueens Consort KindleIt's a tribute to my stubbornness that I finished this book I took a break of six months and almost didn't bother picking it up again I managed to crawl through it finally by reading three other books at the same timeWhat can I say? I don't even know where to begin I've read books where I didn't agree with the author's premiss and whilst this is certainly one of those that doesn't even begin to describe the issues I have with it Let's start with the errors I lost count of the number of errors Literally And there was no way I was going back through for a recount So this fails as a reference book because it is unreliable Then there's clarity If you introduce a truckload of Elizabeths and Matildas it doesn't seem unreasonable to expect you to be clear as to which one you mean when you bring in a point concerning one of them Which brings me to editing was th
PDF/EPUB Lisa Hilton Ñ PDF/EPUB ueens Consort Kindle À Ñ sallow.co ueens book, consort pdf, ueens Consort Kindleso after waiting 8 weeks to get this from the library I really wanted to enjoy this book Let's face it this book should have been heaven for me I totally geek out on medieval history women studies and religious history It should have been a fabulous read I was very excited to get a different perspective on Eleanor of Auitaine and Isabella of France but I was particularly to read about English ueen consorts I have only read about on the fringes of other histories or biographies Boy was I disappointedThings started off strong and I did enjoy myself through the chapter on Eleanor of Auitaine It was about that time that I began to notice the mistakes The further I read into the book the
PDF/EPUB Lisa Hilton Ñ PDF/EPUB ueens Consort Kindle À Ñ sallow.co ueens book, consort pdf, ueens Consort KindleThis is an excellent book if anyone wants to learn of the medieval ueens of England The books excels in many parts and I learned a lot from it about the Anarchy period and the civil war between Matilda and Stephen and the important role Stephen's wife also named Matilda played in her husband's rule and repelling her rival once she was in England I did not know a lot about William the Conueror's wife before reading this only the basics or her successors Henry I's wives Edith of Scotland who later renamed herself Matilda and Adeliza of Louvain However there were some parts in which the book's credibility went downhill Starting with Eleanor of Auitaine which I agree with the author regarding the many myths surrounding this woman that either extol her
PDF/EPUB Lisa Hilton Ñ PDF/EPUB ueens Consort Kindle À Ñ sallow.co ueens book, consort pdf, ueens Consort Kindlefree review copy from publisher via NetGalley At first glance this looked similar to Helen Castor’s “She Wolves” But Castor focuses on the misogyny of the times the individ
PDF/EPUB Lisa Hilton Ñ PDF/EPUB ueens Consort Kindle À Ñ sallow.co ueens book, consort pdf, ueens Consort KindleI'm back on the history reading kick and picked this book up at BN while visiting my son in Connecticut This is really my kind of book I loved all 482 pages and would have gladly read But don't pick this one up if you are looking for wild interpretation or speculation This book is serious history and Ms Hilton uses lots of primary and secondary sources for her profiles If you want romantic stories made up dialog or other flights of fancy you won't find it here The author gives us her profiles based on what is found in charters comtemporary writingsand other official documen
PDF/EPUB Lisa Hilton Ñ PDF/EPUB ueens Consort Kindle À Ñ sallow.co ueens book, consort pdf, ueens Consort KindleGames of Thrones has a great deal to answer for And I'm not just saying that because I love both the TV and book series and the general upsurge in all things medieval and Middle Ages from video games to historical fiction that this interest in a brutal bloody and hierarchical past has sparked into an inferno Game of Thrones has ignited a powerful and at tim