Queens Consort : England's Medieval Queens

Lisa Hilton
Pegasus Books
 9781605981055
1-60598-105-2

Lisa Hilton's illuminating new book explores the lives of the twenty women who were crowned queen between 1066 and 1503. War, adultery, witchcraft, child abuse, murder--and occasionally even love--formed.

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English queenship, but so too did patronage, learning, and fashion. Lovers of history will enjoy a dramatic narrative that presents an exceptional group of women whose personal ambitions, triumphs, and failures helped to give birth to the modern state.