Eleanor of Provence: Queenship in Thirteenth Century England.(Review)

Canadian Journal of History | April 1, 1999| | Copyright

Eleanor of Provence: Queenship in Thirteenth Century England, by Margaret Howell. Oxford, England, Blackwell, 1998. xxii, 349 pp. $59.95.

Fewer than half the medieval queens of England have been the subjects of biographies, either because of the lack of material or because of the lack of impact their queenship made upon England. Eleanor of Provence falls into neither category. She was queen consort or queen dowager for fifty-five years, played a significant role in the politics of her time, and her example had a profound effect on the status of English queens for ...

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