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Author : F. D. Blackley,Gustav Hermansen
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0888640013
Author : Kathryn Warner
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781399098182
Edward II is one of the most unsuccessful and unconventional kings in English history, and is well-known for having passionate and probably intimate relationships with men. In modern times, he has often been considered an LGBT+ icon of sorts. Edward II: His Sexuality and Relationships looks at the men in the king’s life and examines the relations he had with them in the context of medieval notions of sexuality and the famous, albeit almost certainly mythical, idea that he was murdered with a red-hot poker as punishment for having sex with men. It also investigates Edward’s associations with women. Though often thought of as a gay man, it is more likely that Edward was bisexual: he fathered an illegitimate son in his early twenties, at the age of forty had an intimate encounter with a woman in London which is recorded in his household account, and might even have had an incestuous relationship with his own niece. Edward’s marriage to the king of France’s daughter Isabella, arranged when they were children, has often been depicted as a tragic disaster from start to finish. Edward II: His Sexuality and Relationships takes a detailed look at the royal marriage and at all the evidence that it was in fact a happy and mutually supportive partnership for many years, and at Isabella’s important though over-romanticized association with the baron Roger Mortimer. Because Edward is often assumed to have been solely attracted to men, numerous modern authors have depicted him as a grotesque caricature of a camp, weak, foppish gay man. Edward II: His Sexuality and Relationships reveals him as he truly was: as a chronicler puts it, ‘one of the strongest men in his realm.'
Author : Kathryn Warner
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526715609
The de Clare sisters Eleanor, Margaret and Elizabeth were born in the 1290s as the eldest granddaughters of King Edward I of England and his Spanish queen Eleanor of Castile, and were the daughters of the greatest nobleman in England, Gilbert ‘the Red’ de Clare, earl of Gloucester. They grew to adulthood during the turbulent reign of their uncle Edward II, and all three of them were married to men involved in intense, probably romantic or sexual, relationships with their uncle. When their elder brother Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester, was killed during their uncle’s catastrophic defeat at the battle of Bannockburn in June 1314, the three sisters inherited and shared his vast wealth and lands in three countries, but their inheritance proved a poisoned chalice. Eleanor and Elizabeth, and Margaret’s daughter and heir, were all abducted and forcibly married by men desperate for a share of their riches, and all three sisters were imprisoned at some point either by their uncle Edward II or his queen Isabella of France during the tumultuous decade of the 1320s. Elizabeth was widowed for the third time at twenty-six, lived as a widow for just under forty years, and founded Clare College at the University of Cambridge.
Author : Lisa Benz St. John
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137094322
This book is an innovative study offering the first examination of how three fourteenth-century English queens, Margaret of France, Isabella of France, and Philippa of Hainault, exercised power and authority. It frames its analysis around four major themes: gender; status; the concept of the crown; and power and authority.
Author : Roy Martin Haines
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773570566
Edward of Caernarfon is best known today for his disastrous military defeat in 1314 at Bannockburn, where his English army was defeated by a vastly inferior Scottish force led by Robert the Bruce, leading to Scottish Independence. This catastrophe was one of many in a disastrous career marked by indolence, vengefulness, vacillation in relationships with France, deranged policies at home, and constitutional wrangling, ultimately brought to an end by a minor insurgency led by his vindictive wife and her paramour, a disaffected baron.
Author : Kathryn Warner
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526750280
A colorful biography of five royal sisters in medieval England. In 1254 the teenage heir to the English throne took a Spanish bride, the sister of the king of Castile, in Burgos. Their marriage of thirty-six years proved to be one of the great royal romances of the Middle Ages. Edward I of England and Leonor of Castile had at least fourteen children together, though only six survived into adulthood, five of them daughters. Daughters of Edward I traces the lives of these five capable, independent women, including Joan of Acre, born in the Holy Land, who defied her father by marrying a second husband of her own choice, and Mary, who did not let her forced veiling as a nun stand in the way of the life she really wanted to live. These women’s stories span the decades from the 1260s to the 1330s, through the long reign of their father, the turbulent reign of their brother Edward II, and into the reign of their nephew, the child-king Edward III.
Author : Kathryn Warner
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445647418
The fascinating story of the exceptional woman who wrested power from Edward II and changed the course of English history
Author : Susan Higginbotham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1411640489
A short overview of the reign and the death of the ill-fated fourteenth-century English king.
Author : Guy Perry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107196902
The first comprehensive study of the Brienne dynasty, a fascinating example of the international aristocracy in the central Middle Ages.
Author : Aidan Norrie,Carolyn Harris,J.L. Laynesmith,Danna R. Messer,Elena Woodacre
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030948863
This book examines the lives and tenures of the consorts of the Plantagenet dynasty during the later Middle Ages, encompassing two major conflicts—the Hundred Years’ War and the Wars of the Roses. The figures in this volume include well-known consorts such as the “She Wolves” Isabella of France and Margaret of Anjou, as well as queens who are often overlooked, such as Philippa of Hainault and Joan of Navarre. These innovative and authoritative biographies bring a fresh approach to the consorts of this period—challenging negative perceptions created by complex political circumstances and the narrow expectations of later writers, and demonstrating the breadth of possibilities in later medieval queenship. Their conclusions shed fresh light on both the politics of the day and the wider position of women in this age. This volume and its companions reveal the changing nature of English consortship from the Norman Conquest to today.
Author : C. M. Woolgar,Christopher Michael Woolgar
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300118716
Oxbow says: This fascinating study of how people understood and used their senses in the late medieval period draws on evidence from a range of literary texts, documents and records, as well as material culture and architectural sources.
Author : C. M. Woolgar
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300182361
In this revelatory work of social history, C. M. Woolgar shows that food in late-medieval England was far more complex, varied, and more culturally significant than we imagine today. Drawing on a vast range of sources, he charts how emerging technologies as well as an influx of new flavors and trends from abroad had an impact on eating habits across the social spectrum. From the pauper’s bowl to elite tables, from early fad diets to the perceived moral superiority of certain foods, and from regional folk remedies to luxuries such as lampreys, Woolgar illuminates desire, necessity, daily rituals, and pleasure across four centuries.
Author : Zita Eva Rohr,Lisa Benz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319312835
This edited collection opens new ways to look at queenship in areas and countries not usually studied and reflects the increasingly interdisciplinary work and geographic range of the field. This book is a forerunner in queenship and re-invents the reputations of the women and some of the men. The contributors answers questions about the nature of queenship, reputation of queens, and gender roles in the medieval and early modern west. The essays question the viability of propaganda, gossip, and rumor that still characterizes some queens in modern histories. The wide geographic range covered by the contributors moves queenship studies beyond France and England to understudied places such as Sweden and Hungary. Even the essays on more familiar countries explores areas not usually studied, such as the role of Edward II’s stepmother, Margaret of France in Gaveston’s downfall. The chapters clearly have a common thread and the editors’ summary and description of the collection is valuable in assisting the reader. The collection is divided into two sections “Biography, Gossip, and History” and “Politics, Ambition, and Scandal.” The editors and contributors, including Zita Eva Rohr and Elena Woodacre, are scholars at the top of their field and several and engage and debate with recent scholarship. This collection will appeal internationally to literary scholars and gender studies scholars as well historians interested in the countries included in the collection.
Author : Kim M. Philips
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 071905964X
The medieval landscape, as viewed through the eyes of scholars, was hardly populated by women. Particularly, young unmarried women or "maidens" have been paid little attention. This book aims to fill that gap by examining the meaning, experiences and voices of young womanhood. The life-phase of “adolescence” was different for maidens than for young men, and as such merits study in its own right. At the same time a study of young womanhood provides insights into ideals of feminine gender roles and identities at different social levels.
Author : Arthur F. Kinney,Thomas Warren Hopper
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118824030
A New Companion to Renaissance Drama provides an invaluable summary of past and present scholarship surrounding the most popular and influential literary form of its time. Original interpretations from leading scholars set the scene for important paths of future inquiry. A colorful, comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the material conditions of Renaissance plays, England's most important dramatic period Contributors are both established and emerging scholars, with many leading international figures in the discipline Offers a unique approach by organizing the chapters by cultural context, theatre history, genre studies, theoretical applications, and material studies Chapters address newest departures and future directions for Renaissance drama scholarship Arthur Kinney is a world-renowned figure in the field