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QUEENS OF THE AGE OF CHIVALRY - ALISON WEIR TAS...

The third volume of Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of medieval England.'Weir's
history books are as gripping as novels' The Times Medieval queens were seen as mere dynastic
trophies - yet  as Alison Weir shows in this group biography  many of the Plantagenet queens of
the High Middle Ages dramatically broke away from the restrictions imposed on their sex. Using
personal letters and fascinating sources  Weir evokes the lives of these five extraordinary
women: Marguerite of France  Isabella of France  Philippa of Hainault  Anne of Bohemia and
Isabella of Valois. At the same time  she recreates a truly astonishing period of history - the
turbulent  brutal Age of Chivalry. 'Places the reader in the midst of...complex  gripping
events  telling the stories of five royal wives who lived through them' BBC History 'Weir is an
excellent storyteller' Spectator

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