She-Wolves by Helen Castor
'Highly readable, exciting and thought-provoking' - Hilary Mantel 'A gem of blood-and-thunder storytelling' - Dominic Sandbrook In medieval England, man was the ruler of woman, and the King was the ruler of all. How, then, could royal power lie in female hands? In She-Wolves, celebrated historian, Helen Castor, tells the dramatic and fascinating stories of four exceptional women who, while never reigning queens, held great power: Matilda, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France and Margaret of Anjou. These were women who paved the way for Jane Grey, Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I - the Tudor queens who finally confronted what it meant to be a female monarch.
Helen Castor is a medieval historian and a Bye-Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Her book, Blood & Roses, a biography of the fifteenth-century Paston family, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2005 and won the English Association's Beatrice White Prize in 2006. Her second, She-Wolves, was made into a major BBC TV series. Joan of Arc: A History is her latest published book. She lives in London with her husband and son.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571237067 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571237061 |
| Title | She-Wolves |
| Author | Helen Castor |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2011-07-07 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
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