Matilda
Empress, Queen, Warrior
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Narrateur(s):
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Jennifer M. Dixon
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Auteur(s):
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Catherine Hanley
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A life of Matilda - empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages.
Matilda was a daughter, wife, and mother. But she was also empress, heir to the English crown - the first woman ever to hold the position - and an able military general.
This new biography explores Matilda's achievements as military and political leader and sets her life and career in full context. Catherine Hanley provides fresh insight into Matilda's campaign to claim the title of queen, her approach to allied kingdoms and rival rulers, and her role in the succession crisis. Hanley highlights how Matilda fought for the throne and argues that although she never sat on it herself, her reward was to see her son become king. Extraordinarily, her line has continued through every single monarch of England or Britain from that time to the present day.
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Performance
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Histoire
- presterjohn1
- 2024-12-05
Redeeming an important figure from the past
Author Catherine Hanley does an excellent job of fleshing out the often-overlooked yet fascinating Matilda, the empress, daughter of a king, lady of the English, rightful queen, mother of a king. The author relies on primary sources and dispenses with myths about her subject and in so doing, shows that she has a handy command of those sources. She sheds light on the writing down by male chroniclers and treaty-writers of Matilda's role in continuing Henry I's dynasty and launching the Plantagenet dynasty. Her story is unfolded and reconstructed through childhood, youth, maturity and seniority. Her role as empress, heiress and mother of a dynasty has been downplayed by history, but never quite forgotten. Her biographer restores her to respect and honour.
The reader, Jennifer M. Dixon, does a good job with the French person and place names and as this is often a stumbling block for readers of history audio books, it deserves praise.
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