Title The letters of Margaret of Anjou / edited by Helen Maurer and B.M. Cron

Published Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA : The Boydell Press, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 303 pages) Contents Matchmaker -- Holy orders -- Position wanted -- Business interests -- Protector and peacemaker -- Money matters -- Belief and benevolence -- The queen's disport -- En famille -- Queen consort -- Lancastrian queen -- Queen beyond the sea Summary Margaret of Anjou remains a figure of controversy. As wife to the weak King Henry VI, she was on the losing side in the first phase of the Wars of the Roses. Yorkist propaganda vilifying Margaret was consolidated by Shakespeare: his portrait of a warlike and vengeful queen -- "a tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide"--Became the widely-accepted view, which up until recently had been little questioned. However, Margaret's letters, here in their first full collection, in one place for the first time, have their own story to tell -- and present a rather different picture. In her words and the words of her contemporaries, both friend and foe, they reveal a woman who lived according to the noble standards of her time. She enjoyed the hunt, she practised her faith, and she tried to help or protect those who called upon her for assistance, as was expected of a queen and "good lady". Henry's mental breakdown, the birth of their son and growing tensions among the lords of the land forced her to step outside the life she would have expected to live. This study of Margaret's letters establishes the scope of a late medieval queen's concerns, while providing a unique account of this extraordinary woman Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Margaret, of Anjou, Queen, consort of Henry VI, King of England, 1430-1482 -- Correspondence SUBJECT Margaret, of Anjou, Queen, consort of Henry VI, King of England, 1430-1482 fast Subject Queens -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Correspondence HISTORY -- Medieval. Queens SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Henry VI, 1422-1461. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056768 Subject Great Britain Genre/Form personal correspondence. Biographies History Personal correspondence Personal correspondence. Biographies. Correspondance privée. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Maurer, Helen E., 1942- editor. Cron, B. M., editor. ISBN 9781787445666 1787445666

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