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Margaret of Anjou: Queenship and Power in Late Medieval England.(Book Review)

Publication: Albion
Publication Date: 22-JUN-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Helen E. Maurer. Margaret of Anjou: Queenship and Power in Late Medieval England. Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 240. $39.95. ISBN 0-85115-927-3.

Late medieval English queens were meant not to be political but subservient to their husbands. They had other functions to...

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...perform. This is fortunate, since evidence for them in national politics is decidedly thin and any influence they wielded was informal. To our knowledge, queens did not sit in Parliament, great council, or council. All these comments should have applied to Queen Margaret of Anjou, yet apparently did not. Maurer's well-crafted book completely supersedes the old biographies by Bagley and Erlanger. Determined on a political life, she relies mainly on the same old sources,...

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