Margaret of Anjou by Helen E. Maurer
Margaret of Anjou by Helen E. Maurer
Margaret of Anjou by Helen E. Maurer
Margaret of Anjou by Helen E. Maurer
Margaret of Anjou by Helen E. Maurer

Margaret of Anjou by Helen E. Maurer

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Margaret of Anjou

Queenship and Power in Late Medieval England

by Helen E. Maurer

The Bodydell Press, 2003 [First Edition], hardcover, dustjacket, ISBN 0851159273

Near Fine Condition, book in fine condition, dustjacket has watermark stain on underside, minor edge and shelf wear to dustjacket.

Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told - a 'she-wolf' whose vindictive spirit fueled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflict, the Wars of the Roses.  In Shakespeare's rendering she literally becomes a bitch, an adulterous queen who mocks her captive enemy, Richard, duke of York, before killing him in cold blood.'