The Confessor's Wife

The Confessor's Wife
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Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : 0995857849
ISBN-13 : 9780995857841
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis The Confessor's Wife by : Kelly Evans

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

Edward the Confessor
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Total Pages : 238
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105132207106
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Edward the Confessor by : Richard Mortimer

"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

The Monstrous Regiment of Women
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 315
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ISBN-10 : 9780230602113
ISBN-13 : 0230602118
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis The Monstrous Regiment of Women by : S. Jansen

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.

Confessor

Confessor
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 614
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ISBN-10 : 0765315238
ISBN-13 : 9780765315236
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Confessor by : Terry Goodkind

Fantasy-roman.

Perfect Wives, Other Women

Perfect Wives, Other Women
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 329
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ISBN-10 : 9780822383079
ISBN-13 : 0822383071
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Perfect Wives, Other Women by : Georgina Dopico Black

In Perfect Wives, Other Women Georgina Dopico Black examines the role played by women’s bodies—specifically the bodies of wives—in Spain and Spanish America during the Inquisition. In her quest to show how both the body and soul of the married woman became the site of anxious inquiry, Dopico Black mines a variety of Golden Age texts for instances in which the era’s persistent preoccupation with racial, religious, and cultural otherness was reflected in the depiction of women. Subject to the scrutiny of a remarkable array of gazes—inquisitors, theologians, religious reformers, confessors, poets, playwrights, and, not least among them, husbands—the bodies of perfect and imperfect wives elicited diverse readings. Dopico Black reveals how imperialism, the Inquisition, inflation, and economic decline each contributed to a correspondence between the meanings of these human bodies and “other” bodies, such as those of the Jew, the Moor, the Lutheran, the degenerate, and whoever else departed from a recognized norm. The body of the wife, in other words, became associated with categories separate from anatomy, reflecting the particular hermeneutics employed during the Inquisition regarding the surveillance of otherness. Dopico Black’s compelling argument will engage students of Spanish and Spanish American history and literature, gender studies, women’s studies, social psychology and cultural studies.

Edward the Confessor

Edward the Confessor
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 363
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ISBN-10 : 9780300255584
ISBN-13 : 0300255586
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Edward the Confessor by : Tom Licence

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.

The First Confessor

The First Confessor
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 605
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ISBN-10 : 9780765383068
ISBN-13 : 0765383063
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis The First Confessor by : Terry Goodkind

In the time before the Confessors, when the world is a dark and dangerous place, where treason and treachery are the rule of the day, comes one heroic woman--Magda Searus--who has just lost her husband and her way in life.

Queen of Versailles

Queen of Versailles
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 527
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ISBN-10 : 9780228004325
ISBN-13 : 0228004322
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Queen of Versailles by : Mark Bryant

Explores the life and court career of Madame de Maintenon. A study in queenship, it reveals how the dynamics of power and gender operated within the realms of early modern high politics, church-state affairs and international relations while providing unique insights into the Sun King and his court.

Lives of Edward the Confessor

Lives of Edward the Confessor
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Publisher : London, Longman
Total Pages : 712
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ISBN-10 : BSB:BSB10281705
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Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Lives of Edward the Confessor by : Henry Richards Luard