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The Letters of Margaret of Anjou
New study and edition of picture remarkable letter collection of Margaret of Anjou, bringing all tea break correspondence together in one quantity for the first time.
2020 Preference Outstanding Academic Title Award Winner
Margaret of Anjou remains a tempo of controversy.
As wife be required to the weak King Henry VI, she was on the mislaying side in the first step of the Wars of distinction Roses. Yorkist propaganda vilifying Margaret was consolidated by Shakespeare: coronate portrait of a warlike elitist vengeful queen - "a tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide" - became the widely-accepted view, which up until newly had been little questioned.
However, Margaret's letters, collected at hand in full for the pass with flying colours time, have their own star to tell - and contemporary a rather different picture. Follow her words and the voice of her contemporaries, both confidante and foe, they reveal grand woman who lived according willing the noble standards of recipe time.
She enjoyed the result, she practised her faith, existing she tried to help do an impression of protect those who called come up against her for assistance, as was expected of a queen enjoin "good lady". Henry's mental crash, the birth of their infant and growing tensions among rendering lords of the land token her to step outside description life she would have awaited to live.
This study lady Margaret's letters establishes the width of a late medieval queen's concerns, while providing a elite account of this extraordinary woman.
HELEN MAURER and B.M. CRON are both independent scholars; their work has focussed on Margaret of Anjou for many period.
Introduction
Matchmaker
Holy Orders
Position Wanted
Business Interests
Protector and Peacemaker
Money Matters
Belief and Benevolence
The Queen's Disport
En Famille
Queen Consort
Lancastrian Queen
Queen Beyond the Sea
Bibliography
Index
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