Medievalists.net » Elizabeth Wydeville/Woodville http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 ‘There is more to the story than this, of course’: Character and Affect in Philippa Gregory’s The White Queen http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/13/story-course-character-affect-philippa-gregorys-white-queen/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/13/story-course-character-affect-philippa-gregorys-white-queen/#comments Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:02:55 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53306 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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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/13/story-course-character-affect-philippa-gregorys-white-queen/feed/ 0 The history of foxglove poisoning, was Edward IV a victim? http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/30/history-foxglove-poisoning-edward-iv-victim/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/30/history-foxglove-poisoning-edward-iv-victim/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:41:02 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=49300 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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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/28/great-medieval-fiction-2013/feed/ 0 “She should have more if she were ruled and guided by them”: Elizabeth Woodville and Margery Kempe, female agency in late medieval England http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/15/she-should-have-more-if-she-were-ruled-and-guided-by-them-elizabeth-woodville-and-margery-kempe-female-agency-in-late-medieval-england/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/15/she-should-have-more-if-she-were-ruled-and-guided-by-them-elizabeth-woodville-and-margery-kempe-female-agency-in-late-medieval-england/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2012 03:15:31 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36535 This thesis argues that while patriarchy was certainly present in England during the late medieval period, women of the middle and upper classes were able to exercise agency to a certain degree through using both the patriarchal bargain and an economy of makeshifts

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