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Author : Judith M. Bennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780902194533
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (945 download)
Download or read book Queens, Whores and Maidens written by Judith M. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marjotte Miles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Queens, Maidens and Whores written by Marjotte Miles and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louise Tingle
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030632199
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Chaucer's Queens written by Louise Tingle and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the agency and influence of medieval queens in late fourteenth-century England, focusing on the patronage and intercessory activities of the queens Philippa of Hainault and Anne of Bohemia, as well as the princess Joan of Kent. It examines the ways in which royal women were able to participate in traditional queenly customs such as intercession, and whether it was motherhood that gave power to a queen. This study focuses particularly on types of patronage, and also considers the importance of coronation, especially for Joan of Kent, who was neither a queen consort nor a dowager, yet still fulfilled some queenly duties. Crucially, the author highlights the transactional nature of the queen’s role at court, as she accumulated wealth from land, rights and traditions, which in turn funded patronage activities.
Author : Nigel Saul
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826424155
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)
Download or read book The Three Richards written by Nigel Saul and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-06-12 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three Richards who ruled England in the Middle Ages were among the most controversial and celebrated of its rulers. Richard I ('Coeur de Lion', 1189-99) was a great crusading hero; Richard II (1377-99) was an authoritarian aesthete deposed by his cousin, Henry IV, and murdered; while Richard III (1483-85), as the murderer of his nephews, 'The Princes in the Tower', was the most notorious villain in English history. This highly readable joint biography shows how much the three kings had in common, apart from their names. All were younger sons of monarchs, not expected to come to the throne; all failed to leave a legitimate heir, causing instability on their deaths; all were cultured and pious; and all died violently. All have attracted accusations but also fascination. In comparing them, Nigel Saul tells three gripping stories and shows what it took to be a medieval king.
Author : Raffaele Crispino
Publisher : Crispino Raffaele
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Women Courtesans and Queens written by Raffaele Crispino and published by Crispino Raffaele. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ironic, satirical. Learn the History cheerfully. From Marie Antoinette to Greta Garbo. By Messalina to Lucrezia Borgia. All women who have had a life tormented, fascinating and sometimes tragic. Anita Garibaldi will speak of her love for Joseph, who will take her to follow him to Italy. Cleopatra analyze her life and the need to be wicked and cruel enough to push it to kill her sister. The Countess of Castiglione explain the reasons that led it to be a courtesan as the Marquise de Pompadour, will report its ability to remain still the favorite of the king although there were young women decided to take her place. Mona Lisa admire her composure and her way of being a woman in the presence of Leonardo while painting her portrait. Helen of Troy tells us that escape with Paris to Troy was the only wise thing she has done in her life and to have no remorse for the thousands of dead because of her. The reports, reportage interviews with these famous women of every age lead us to expand in every time with the belief that if you want to explain this one must always look to the past
Author : Annie Becker
Publisher : Blushing Publications
ISBN 13 : 1948140373
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Death's Maiden written by Annie Becker and published by Blushing Publications. This book was released on 2019-02-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Cassie Martin slips through the top-secret time-bridge to find herself in 1348 Avignon, France, she has high hopes that she can make this trip a quick and magical one, and most of all, keep it secret from her lover Aaron Reegan. She wants to get onto Avignon’s famous bridge, see it and get back within minutes. Then, Cassie comes through the time-bridge the first person to see her is a cruel monk who calls her Hecate and “Death’s Maiden.” Top-secret time travel facility? Creepy (yet mysterious) fellow reporter Syd Meyer who has lied and betrayed Cassie? No-nonsense ex-Delta force Army Captain who loves BDSM play, has a riding crop – and will use it, if only he can also follow Cassie back in time and find her. What could possibly go wrong?
Author : Barbara Allen
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789141176
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Pelican written by Barbara Allen and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its distinctive, comical walk, large bill, and association with the conservation movement, the pelican has attained iconic status. But as Barbara Allen reveals, this graceful skimmer of ocean waves has a checkered history. Originally classed as “unclean” in the King James Bible, the legend of the compassionate pelican was later appropriated by Christianity to symbolize Christ’s sacrifice. This majestic bird, gifted to British royalty in 1664, has been celebrated in art and literature, from Shakespeare’s King Lear to the writing of Edward Lear, and is the holder of three Guinness World Records. The pelican’s anatomy has been copied for paper plane construction, aircraft design, and in 3D imaging, and its resilience is as remarkable as its make-up: the pelican has rallied against threats of extinction, habitat destruction, and environmental disasters such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. A must-read book for all bird enthusiasts, Barbara Allen’s Pelican weaves together wildlife trivia, historical tales, and the latest research to provide an engaging, many-feathered account of this emblematic bird.
Author : Jennifer C. Edwards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Daily Life of Women in Chaucer's England written by Jennifer C. Edwards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an indispensable resource for students and scholars studying the history of medieval women and gender, this book provides a comprehensive depiction of women's lives in the 14th and 15th centuries. The late medieval period in England was one rich with opportunities for women, who played fundamental roles in family businesses as well as in the peasant community and economy, and who wrote letters, created autobiographies, and documented their spiritual journeys. Their lives fit into a pattern of seasonal celebrations and rituals shaped, for the majority of women, by work, marriage, and motherhood. The text further considers status distinctions, then shifts to experiences that affected all women, such as the ritual year, disease, food and drink, sex or celibacy, and religion. By providing an overview of the history of English women and gender in the 14th and 15th centuries, the book provides a background suitable for students as well as for academics beginning work in this field.
Author : Frances E. Dolan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501734113
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Whores of Babylon written by Frances E. Dolan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seventeenth century, the largely Protestant nation of England was preoccupied with its Catholic subjects. They inspired more prolific and harsher criticism and more elaborate attempts at legal regulation than did any other minority group. To understand this phenomenon, Frances E. Dolan probes the verbal and visual representations of Catholics and Catholicism and the uses to which these were put during three crises in Protestant'Catholic relations: the gunpowder plot (1605), Queen Henrietta Maria's open advocacy of Catholicism in the 1630s and 1640s, and the popish and meal tub plots (1678—1680). She uses each crisis as a jumping-off point, an opportunity for speculation, as did contemporary writers. Drawing on political, religious, and legal writings and offering fresh readings of literary texts such as Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra, Dolan shows how often Catholics and Catholicism were linked to disorderly women. Dolan maintains that since Catholics were members of many English families and communities and prominent at court, the threat they offered was precisely that they could not be readily isolated and assigned to a category—both laws and polemic struggled to identify Catholics, but never succeeded in establishing a clear line between Catholics and everyone else. In seventeenth-century England, Dolan says, the threat of Catholicism lay in the tension between the foreign and the familiar, the different and the same.
Author : India Edghill
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466883669
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Game of Queens written by India Edghill and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of The Red Tent and The Dovekeepers, India Edghill breathes new life into the biblical story of Vashti and Esther with her signature historical richness, epic scope, and sweeping romance. You may know part of the story already, but you only know what history has passed along. The story of how Vashti, Queen of Queens, the most beautiful woman in all the empire, defied the king her husband and so lost her crown. The story of how Ahasuerus, King of Kings, commanded that the most beautiful maidens be sent to his court so he might choose a new queen. And you may know how he set the queen's crown upon the head of the virtuous and beautiful Esther, and how Queen Esther herself defied both king and law to save her people from a treacherous fate. What India Edghill brings us in Game of Queens is the story of power and treachery, blood and deception, bravery and romance that surrounds the court of Ahasuerus and brings to life two of the most celebrated female heroines in all of history.
Author : Camille Naish
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136247610
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Death Comes to the Maiden written by Camille Naish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1791, the French femme de lettres Olympe de Gouges wrote that 'as women have the right to take their places on the scaffold, they must also have the right to take their seats in government'. This book explores the issues of female emancipation through the history of female execution, from the burning of Joan of Arc in 1431 to the events of the French revolution. Concentrating on individual victims, the author addresses the sexual attitudes and prejudices encountered by women condemned to death. She examines the horrific treatment of those denounced as witches and reveals the gruesome reality of death by hanging, burning or the guillotine. In an attempt to uncover the historical truth behind such figures as Joan of Arc, Anne Boleyn, Manon Roland and Charlotte Corday, she goes beyond biography to consider their deaths in symbolic terms. She also considers writers such as Genet, Yourcenar and Brecht and their treatment of the tragic, sacrificial and erotic aspects of female execution.
Author : John Dryden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Secret-love, or The maiden-queen: as it is acted by His Majesties Servants, at the Theater-Royal written by John Dryden and published by . This book was released on 1669 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Dryden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Secret-Love, Or the Maiden-Queen written by John Dryden and published by . This book was released on 1669 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katherine Pangonis
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1474614108
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (746 download)
Download or read book Queens of Jerusalem written by Katherine Pangonis and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1187 Saladin's armies besieged the holy city of Jerusalem. He had previously annihilated Jerusalem's army at the battle of Hattin, and behind the city's high walls a last-ditch defence was being led by an unlikely trio - including Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem. They could not resist Saladin, but, if they were lucky, they could negotiate terms that would save the lives of the city's inhabitants. Queen Sibylla was the last of a line of formidable female rulers in the Crusader States of Outremer. Yet for all the many books written about the Crusades, one aspect is conspicuously absent: the stories of women. Queens and princesses tend to be presented as passive transmitters of land and royal blood. In reality, women ruled, conducted diplomatic negotiations, made military decisions, forged alliances, rebelled, and undertook architectural projects. Sibylla's grandmother Queen Melisende was the first queen to seize real political agency in Jerusalem and rule in her own right. She outmanoeuvred both her husband and son to seize real power in her kingdom, and was a force to be reckoned with in the politics of the medieval Middle East. The lives of her Armenian mother, her three sisters, and their daughters and granddaughters were no less intriguing. The lives of this trailblazing dynasty of royal women, and the crusading Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, are the focus of Katherine Pangonis's debut book. In QUEENS OF JERUSALEM she explores the role women played in the governing of the Middle East during periods of intense instability, and how they persevered to rule and seize greater power for themselves when the opportunity presented itself.
Author : John Dryden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Secret-love, Or, The Maiden-queen written by John Dryden and published by . This book was released on 1691 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unnamed virgin queen loves a commoner, Philocles, whom she has promoted as her court favorite, but she has jealously guarded her right to rule independently of a husband. Philocles loves another woman of royal blood, but loves as much, or more, the idea of becoming king. Ultimately the queen's struggle between her desire to marry beneath her and her desire to maintain her primacy as ruler results in a baroque settlement in which she will live unmarried and the crown will in time devolve upon the commoner's head.
Author : Sondra L. Hausner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253021472
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Spirits of Crossbones Graveyard written by Sondra L. Hausner and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every month, a ragtag group of Londoners gather in the site known as Crossbones Graveyard to commemorate the souls of medieval prostitutes believed to be buried there—the "Winchester Geese," women who were under the protection of the Church but denied Christian burial. In the Borough of Southwark, not far from Shakespeare's Globe, is a pilgrimage site for self-identified misfits, nonconformists, and contemporary sex workers who leave memorials to the outcast dead. Ceremonies combining raucous humor and eclectic spirituality are led by a local playwright, John Constable, also known as John Crow. His interpretation of the history of the site has struck a chord with many who feel alienated in present-day London. Sondra L. Hausner offers a nuanced ethnography of Crossbones that tacks between past and present to look at the historical practices of sex work, the relation of the Church to these professions, and their representation in the present. She draws on anthropological approaches to ritual and time to understand the forms of spiritual healing conveyed by the Crossbones rites. She shows that ritual is a way of creating the present by mobilizing the stories of the past for contemporary purposes.
Author : Emily White
Publisher : tredition
ISBN 13 : 3384314336
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (843 download)
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