Daughters of chivalry : the forgotten children of Edward I
Wilson-Lee, Kelcey2019
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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.
Main title:
Daughters of chivalry : the forgotten children of Edward I / Kelcey Wilson-Lee.
Author:
Wilson-Lee, Kelcey, author
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.
ISBN:
9781509847891 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
1885495
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