Book description
She Wolves is a history of the 'bad girls' of England's medieval
royal dynasties - the queens who earned themselves the reputation of
being somehow notorious. Some of them are well known and have been the
subject of biographies - Eleanor of Aquitaine, Emma of Normandy,
Isabella of France and Anne Boleyn, for example - while others have
not been written about outside academic journals. The appeal of these
notorious queens, apart from their shared taste for witchcraft,
murder, adultery and incest, is that, because they were notorious,
they attracted a great deal of attention during their lifetimes. She
Wolves reveals much about the role of the medieval queen and the
evolution of the role that led, ultimately, to the reign of Elizabeth
I, and a new concept of queenship.
