The Confessor's Wife

2019-07-02

Author : Kelly Evans
Release : 2019-07-02
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Download or read book The Confessor's Wife written by Kelly Evans. This book was released on 2019-07-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 11th Century, when barren wives are customarily cast aside, how does Edith of Wessex not only manage to stay married to King Edward the Confessor, but also become his closest advisor, promote her family to the highest offices in the land, AND help raise her brother to the throne? And why is her story only told in the footnotes of Edward's history?Not everyone approves of Edward's choice of bride. Even the king's mother, Emma of Normandy, detests her daughter-in-law and Edith is soon on the receiving end of her displeasure. Balancing her sense of family obligation with her duty to her husband, Edith must also prove herself to her detractors. Edward's and Edith's relationship is respectful and caring, but when Edith's enemies engineer her family's fall from grace, the king is forced to send her away. She vows to do anything to protect her family's interests if she returns, at any cost. Can Edith navigate the dangerous path fate has set her, while still remaining loyal to both her husband and her family?

Edward the Confessor

2009 Architecture

Author : Richard Mortimer
Release : 2009
Genre : Architecture
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Download or read book Edward the Confessor written by Richard Mortimer. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of essays, originating in the celebration of the millennium of Edward the Confessor's birth, is a full-scale reassessment of Edward's life and cult." --Book Jacket.

The Monstrous Regiment of Women

2002-10-17 Psychology

Author : S. Jansen
Release : 2002-10-17
Genre : Psychology
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Download or read book The Monstrous Regiment of Women written by S. Jansen. This book was released on 2002-10-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Monstrous Regiment of Women , Sharon Jansen explores the case for and against female rule by examining the arguments made by theorists from Sir John Fortescue (1461) through Bishop Bossuet (1680) interweaving their arguments with references to the most well-known early modern queens. The 'story' of early modern European political history looks very different if, instead of focusing on kings and their sons, we see successive generations of powerful women and the shifting political alliances of the period from a very different, and revealing, perspective.

Edward the Confessor

2020-09-29 History

Author : Tom Licence
Release : 2020-09-29
Genre : History
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Download or read book Edward the Confessor written by Tom Licence. This book was released on 2020-09-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative life of Edward the Confessor, the monarch whose death sparked the invasion of 1066 One of the last kings of Anglo-Saxon England, Edward the Confessor regained the throne for the House of Wessex and is the only English monarch to have been canonized. Often cast as a reluctant ruler, easily manipulated by his in-laws, he has been blamed for causing the invasion of 1066—the last successful conquest of England by a foreign power. Tom Licence navigates the contemporary webs of political deceit to present a strikingly different Edward. He was a compassionate man and conscientious ruler, whose reign marked an interval of peace and prosperity between periods of strife. More than any monarch before, he exploited the mystique of royalty to capture the hearts of his subjects. This compelling biography provides a much-needed reassessment of Edward’s reign—calling into doubt the legitimacy of his successors and rewriting the ending of Anglo-Saxon England.

Perfect Wives, Other Women

2001-02-13 Family & Relationships

Author : Georgina Dopico Black
Release : 2001-02-13
Genre : Family & Relationships
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Download or read book Perfect Wives, Other Women written by Georgina Dopico Black. This book was released on 2001-02-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVClose readings of canonical Spanish “Golden Age” and Latin American “colonial” texts, drawing heavily on the findings and strategies of psychoanalytic criticism, gender studies and Marxism, and offering an understanding of a repres/div

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