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Category: Alison Weir

His handsome face is suffused with rage. He stands before me shaking, then to my disgust, bursts into noisy tears; “I shall tell my mother of you!” he sobs and crashes out of the chamber

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If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by

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They inhabited a lost world of splendour and brutality, a world dominated by religious change, in which there were few saints.

feminism, history, non-fiction, royalty, women-s-history

Arthur managed to speak to his grandmother [Queen Eleanor of England], demanding that she evacuate the castle with all her possessions and then go peaceably wherever she wished, for he wanted to show nothing but honour to her person. The Queen replied that she would not leave it, but if he behaved as a courtly gentlemen, he would quit this place, for he would find plenty of castles to attack other than the one she was in.

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Until quite recently women’s histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them.

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Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found that she was expected to be no more than a decorative asset to her husband, the mother of his heirs and the arbiter of good taste and modesty.

boredom, eleanor-of-aquitaine, history, medieval, medieval-history, royalty

Until quite recently women’s histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them.

british-history, feminism, history, non-fiction, royalty, women-s-history

They inhabited a lost world of splendour and brutality, a world dominated by religious change, in which there were few saints.

feminism, history, non-fiction, royalty, women-s-history

Arthur managed to speak to his grandmother [Queen Eleanor of England], demanding that she evacuate the castle with all her possessions and then go peaceably wherever she wished, for he wanted to show nothing but honour to her person. The Queen replied that she would not leave it, but if he behaved as a courtly gentlemen, he would quit this place, for he would find plenty of castles to attack other than the one she was in.

eleanor-of-aquitaine, history

Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found that she was expected to be no more than a decorative asset to her husband, the mother of his heirs and the arbiter of good taste and modesty.

boredom, eleanor-of-aquitaine, history, medieval, medieval-history, royalty

If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by

alison-weir, innocent-traitor, jane-grey, truth