Imprint:
London : Picador, 2019.
Collation:
xi, 363 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this idealised - and largely mythical - notion of the medieval noblewoman still lingers. Yet the reality was very different, as Kelcey Wilson-Lee shows in this vibrant account of the five daughters of the great English king, Edward I. The lives of these sisters - Eleanora, Joanna, Margaret, Mary and Elizabeth - ran the full gamut of experiences open to royal women in the Middle Ages. Living as they did in a courtly culture founded on romantic longing and brilliant pageantry, they knew that a princess was to be chaste yet a mother to many children, preferably sons, meek yet able to influence a recalcitrant husband or even command a host of men-at-arms.
ISBN:
9781509847891 (hbk)
Dewey Class:
942.0350922
942.035092 EDW
942.035092
B EDW
942.035
Subject:
Edward I, King of England, 1239-1307 -- FamilyGreat Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Children -- BiographyEleanor, Countess of Bar, 1269-1298Joan, Countess of Gloucester, 1272-1307Margaret, Duchess of Brabant, 1275-1333Mary of Woodstock, 1279-1332Elizabeth, Countess of Hereford, 1282-1316 Bookmark Link:
https://rochdale.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/MASK/BIBENQ?BRN=2775617
