An edition of Eleanor of Castile (1995)

Eleanor of Castile

queen and society in thirteenth-century England

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An edition of Eleanor of Castile (1995)

Eleanor of Castile

queen and society in thirteenth-century England

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For too long many historians have avoided the careers of medieval queens, dismissing them as creatures of romance and legend, as women who enjoyed rank and wealth merely as a consequence of birth or marriage. A renewed interest in such women has, however, been created by new approaches to the understanding of women and power in the Middle Ages.

Eleanor of Castile looks at the wife of Edward I of England, a woman eulogized since the sixteenth century as a model of virtuous womanhood and queenly excellence who overcame the impediment of her foreign birth to win all English hearts. By exploring Eleanor's behavior and the ways in which it was interpreted by her subjects, John Carmi Parsons overturns this view and shows that Eleanor's contemporaries actually had quite a different opinion of their queen.

Eleanor of Castile thus becomes a study in the construction of the imagery of one woman's power and her society's perception of that imagery. Parsons also considers the evolution of the queen's posthumous legend as her reputation was fashioned and refashioned in response to changing opinions on women and power.

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St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Pages
364

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Cover of: Eleanor of Castile
Eleanor of Castile
June 1, 1998, Palgrave Macmillan
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Cover of: Eleanor of Castile
Eleanor of Castile: queen and society in thirteenth-century England
1995, St. Martin's Press
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Cover of: Eleanor of Castile
Eleanor of Castile
March 8, 1995, Palgrave Macmillan
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
942.03/5/092, B
Library of Congress
DA229 .P37 1995, DA229.P37 1995, DA229 .P37 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
xix, 364 p. :
Number of pages
364

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1105921M
Internet Archive
eleanorofcastile0000pars
ISBN 10
0312086490
LCCN
94031086
OCLC/WorldCat
31078767
Library Thing
1162528
Goodreads
4183357

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more than forty years have passed since Vivian Galbraith dealt in an important article with the survival of notions about good and bad kings in the medieval history of England.
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