She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth - Couverture souple

Castor, Helen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571237061 ISBN 13 : 9780571237067

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2011

Synopsis

'Highly readable, exciting and thought-provoking' - Hilary Mantel

'A gem of blood-and-thunder storytelling' - Dominic Sandbrook

In medieval England, man was the ruler of woman, and the King was the ruler of all. How, then, could royal power lie in female hands?

In She-Wolves, celebrated historian, Helen Castor, tells the dramatic and fascinating stories of four exceptional women who, while never reigning queens, held great power: Matilda, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France and Margaret of Anjou. These were women who paved the way for Jane Grey, Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I - the Tudor queens who finally confronted what it meant to be a female monarch.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Helen Castor is a historian of medieval England, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Her first book, Blood & Roses, a biography of the fifteenth-century Paston family, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2005 and won the English Association's Beatrice White Prize in 2006. Her second book, She-Wolves, was made into a BBC2 tv series.
She lives in London with her husband and son.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571237061
• ISBN 13: 9780571237067
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 496
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