1. Queens of the Conquest
The first volume of England’s Medieval Queens examines the women who shaped the monarchy from the Norman Conquest to the accession of Henry II. Matilda of Flanders, Matilda of Scotland, Adeliza of Louvain, Empress Matilda and Matilda of Boulogne navigated conquest, succession war, regency and patronage.…
2. Queens of the Crusades
The second volume of England’s Medieval Queens follows the consorts of the Angevin kings, including Eleanor of Aquitaine and Berengaria of Navarre. Their lives intersect with crusading, rebellion, captivity, dynastic marriage and the expansion and loss of the Angevin Empire. The book uses queenship to examine…
3. Queens of the Age of Chivalry
The third volume of England’s Medieval Queens covers the consorts of the later Plantagenets from Eleanor of Castile to Anne of Bohemia. War in Wales, Scotland and France, deposition, court culture and the growth of chivalric monarchy provide the political setting. The biographies show queens acting…
4. Queens at War
The final volume of England’s Medieval Queens follows the consorts and female claimants of the fifteenth century through Lancastrian collapse, Yorkist rule and the rise of the Tudors. Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne Neville, Margaret Beaufort and Elizabeth of York confront civil war, exile, disputed…