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‘There is more to the story than this, of course’: Character and Affect in Philippa Gregory’s The White Queen

Medievalists.net — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:02:55 +0000

Philippa Gregory has critiqued gendered representations of Elizabeth Woodville and has stated that her 2009 novel The White Queen fictionalises Woodville’s history with the aim of challenging such depictions.

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Murder, Alchemy and the Wars of the Roses

Medievalists.net — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 18:51:55 +0000

What follows is a kind of murder mystery, but not a whodunit. The identity of the man who carried out the crime, while indeed a mystery, is probably unknowable and actually unimportant.

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Time, space and power in later medieval Bristol

Medievalists.net — Mon, 26 May 2014 11:51:53 +0000

With a population of almost 10,000, Bristol was later medieval England’s second or third biggest urban place, and the realm’s second port after London. While not particularly large or wealthy in comparison with the great cities of northern Italy, Flanders or the Rhineland, it was a metropolis in the context of the British Isles.

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The history of foxglove poisoning, was Edward IV a victim?

Medievalists.net — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:41:02 +0000

The history of foxglove poisoning, was Edward IV a victim? Peter Stride (University of Queensland School of Medicine, Australia) Fiona Winston-Brown (Librarian, Redcliffe Hospital, Australia) Richard III Society: Inc. Vol. 43 No. 1 March (2012) Abstract Edward IV, having been obese, but otherwise apparently in good health, died after an acute illness of only a […]

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Great Medieval Fiction 2013!

Medievalists.net — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 23:55:39 +0000

For those of you who enjoy some fantasy or a historical novel - this list is for you!

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Two dozen and more Silkwomen of Fifteenth-Century London

Medievalists.net — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 00:32:02 +0000

This article attempts to record systematically all the silkwomen of London who were daughters or wives of London mercers between 1400 and 1499.

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Danse Macabre’ Around the Tomb and Bones of Margaret of York

Medievalists.net — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 00:08:47 +0000

Over 500 years ago on 23 November 1503, at Malines, in present day Belgium, died Margaret of York, sister to Edward IV and Richard III of England and third and last wife of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, whom she survived by a quarter of a century.

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When Richard III invaded Scotland

Medievalists.net — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 23:44:58 +0000

A new article is shining light on a more successful military campaign that Richard led just before he took the English throne.

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Sir John Fortescue and the French Polemical Treatises of the Hundred Years War

Medievalists.net — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 01:04:28 +0000

Inevitably Fortescue had to adopt new arguments for the defence of Henry VI. To this end he asserted that the Lancastrians now had a just title through divine and ecclesiastical approbation, popular consent and prescription, but the core of his case was a direct response to the Yorkist claim that they had a superior hereditary title to the throne.

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The Princess and the Gene Pool: The Plantagenet rebel who held the secret to Richard III’s DNA

Medievalists.net — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 22:29:56 +0000

Richard III is perhaps the most controversial figure in British history and historians will long be discussing what new light the finds cast on his story. But the long-forgotten Anne was herself a creature of scandal – a woman who openly took a lover; divorced her husband; and kept his family lands anyway.

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