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

From one of Britain's best selling historians  a sweeping and magisterial history of the
extraordinary lives of five queens in England's turbulent Age of ChivalryMedieval queens were
seen as mere dynastic trophies  yet many of the Plantagenet queens of the High Middle Ages
dramatically broke away from the restrictions imposed on their sex  as Alison Weir shows in
this gripping group biography of England's fourteenth-century consorts.Using personal letters
and wonderfully vivid sources  Alison Weir evokes the lives of five remarkable queens:
Marguerite of France  Isabella of France  Philippa of Hainault  Anne of Bohemia and Isabella of
Valois.The turbulent  brutal Age of Chivalry witnessed the Black Death  the Peasants' Revolt 
the Hundred Years War against France and savage baronial wars against the monarchy in which
these queens were passionately involved. Queens of the Age of Chivalry brilliantly recreates
this truly dramatic period of history through the lives of five extraordinary women.Stunning...
[Weir has] brought those five queens to life like never before. I just raced through it - it
has all the drama and suspense of a novel. - Tracy Borman  praise for Queens of Crusades

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