What Is Better Than a Good Woman?: Alice Chaucer, Commoner and Yorkist Matriarch by Schindler, Mich?le
What Is Better Than a Good Woman?: Alice Chaucer, Commoner and Yorkist Matriarch by Schindler, Mich?le

What Is Better Than a Good Woman?: Alice Chaucer, Commoner and Yorkist Matriarch

Alice Chaucer, Countess of Salisbury and Duchess of Suffolk, is one of the very rare people, and...
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Author: Mich?le Schindler
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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What Is Better Than a Good Woman?: Alice Chaucer, Commoner and Yorkist Matriarch by Schindler, Mich?le

What Is Better Than a Good Woman?: Alice Chaucer, Commoner and Yorkist Matriarch

$95.74
What Is Better Than a Good Woman?: Alice Chaucer, Commoner and Yorkist Matriarch by Schindler, Mich?le

What Is Better Than a Good Woman?: Alice Chaucer, Commoner and Yorkist Matriarch

$95.74
Author: Mich?le Schindler
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Alice Chaucer, Countess of Salisbury and Duchess of Suffolk, is one of the very rare people, and the only woman, not born to nobility who became an important political player in the upheaval of fifteenth-century England. Widowed, remarkably enough, at the age of 11, that 'marriage' nevertheless set her on the road to power and riches. Her second husband, the Earl of Salisbury, would die at the Siege of Orl?ans during the Hundred Years War. Her third husband, William de la Pole, was Henry VI's Chief Minister ‒ and paid for that allegiance with his life, murdered and thrown into the English Channel. Alice survived all this and more - including a state trial in 1451 - and at the same time was a patron of the arts, commissioning artworks depicting empowered historical female characters, notably St Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary. Alice possessed a large library. As late as 1472, Alice became custodian of Margaret of Anjou, her former friend and patron. She ruthlessly protected the inheritance of her son John de la Pole, and three of his four sons would pursue the Yorkist claim to the throne against Henry VII: they would all die in the attempt. Is it going too far to call Alice Chaucer a proto-feminist? If one considers her choices of subject matter as an art patron, it might not be.

Author: Mich?le Schindler
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Published: 07/15/2024
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 9.56h x 6.60w x 1.37d
ISBN: 9781398109698

About the Author
Mich?le Schindler studied at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universit?t in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, reading English Studies and history with a focus on mediaeval studies. At the same time she worked as a language teacher, teaching English and German as a second language. In addition to English and German, she is fluent in French, and reads Latin. She is the author of 'Lovell Our Dogge' and 'Alice Chaucer' for Amberley.
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