Lionessheart

The Life and Times of Joanna Plantagenet

AvCatherine Hanley

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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‘... brings the medieval world vividly to life, recreating the always fascinating and sometimes dangerous world in which Joanna moved.’ - All About HistoryRichard the Lionheart travelled to far-flung realms, went on crusade, met kings and popes, and exerted a great deal of influence on the world around him … and so did his sister.The sons of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine have been the subject of much historical attention, but their daughters have been curiously overlooked. The youngest of them, Joanna, led a particularly extraordinary life full of adventure and danger – and not a little controversy – that was more than a match for those of any of her brothers, including the famed Lionheart himself.Lionessheart is Joanna’s story, and also an exploration of the wider world of the twelfth century as seen through the eyes of a woman who was a princess and a pioneer, a warrior and a wife, a captive and a queen.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-03-27
Mått:150 x 20 x 240 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:The History Press Ltd
ISBN:9781803995168

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Dr CATHERINE HANLEY holds a PhD in Medieval Studies (Sheffield, 2001), is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and is the author of historical works in several genres. Her scholarly writing includes a monograph based on her PhD thesis and academic journal articles in the UK, US and France, as well as contributions to the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology. She has written seven books of popular history: three for Yale University Press, two for The History Press and one each for Osprey and Pen & Sword.

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‘Step forward, Joanna Plantagenet! … This is an engaging, exciting and hugely enjoyable book that cleverly brings to light the multiplicity of challenges, restrictions and opportunities that faced royal women in the medieval period, moments without power but also, with careful judgement, occasions to exert power.’

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CoverTitleCopyrightContentsList of IllustrationsList of Maps and Tables MapsFamily Tables AcknowledgementsIntroduction1 A King’s Daughter2 A King’s Wife3 A King’s Sister4 To the East5 Crusade6 A Massacre and a Marriage Proposal7 The Long Road Home8 Toulouse9 Full CircleConclusionNotesBibliography