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Autor de The Wars of the Roses: Military activity and English society, 1452-97
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Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent: A Fourteenth-century… por Anthony Goodman
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antiquary | otra reseña | Apr 27, 2018 | A scholarly but I think quite accessible biography of Joan of Kent, a fourteenth-century English princess who gained notoriety because of her three marriages: successively clandestine, bigamous, and within the forbidden degrees of relationship. (For much of the Middle Ages in western Europe, Catholics required a dispensation from the pope in order to marry their first cousins. Joan chose to marry her cousin, the Black Prince, first, and ask permission later.) Anthony Goodman does a good job at pulling together the known information about Joan's life, and at fleshing it out through context. I could quibble with some of the ways in which Goodman frames Joan's exercise of power as "exceptional" (have we not been having these conversations about medieval women and power for decades now?), and the way in which he seems to posit this as a new possibility for aristocratic and royal women in the later Middle Ages. Still, this is a fine book, solidly written, and will likely be the go-to book on Joan for some time to come.
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siriaeve | otra reseña | Aug 27, 2017 | A military history of the War of the Roses which consists of the campaigns between 1452 through 1497, and the military organization.½
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