num_pages: 288
description: This history deals with the bad girls of England's medieval royal dynasties the queens who earned themselves a notorious reputation. Some of them are well known and have been the subject of biographyEleanor of Aquitaine Emma of Normandy Isabella of France and Anne Boleyn for examplewhile others have not been written about outside academic journals. The appeal of these notorious queens apart from their shared taste for witchcraft murder adultery and incest is that because they were notorious they attracted a great deal of attention during their lifetimes. This study reveals much about the role of the medieval queen and the evolution of the role that led ultimately to the reign of Elizabeth I and a new concept of queenship.
language: English
title: She Wolves: The Notorious Queens of Medieval England
publisher: Sutton