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1 day ago · Henry‘s marriage in 1445 to the fifteen-year-old Margaret of Anjou was meant to secure a truce. But the bride came without a dowry and at a terrible diplomatic cost: the cession of Maine and Anjou to the French crown.
She presents a powerful picture of the symbolic metaphors behind many of these rituals, with, for instance, the coronation pageant of Margaret of Anjou being used to champion the peace with France that she personified, and representing the queen as the Virgin Mary, as the universal church and as the human soul, each in union with Christ as the ...
5 days ago · The histories of queens, such as Margaret of Anjou who infamously stepped in to govern during her husband’s fits of madness, are employed by Earenfight as evidence that queens exercised influence and power during troublesome times.
5 days ago · A Yorkist army led by Richard Neville, the Earl of Warwick and Edward, Earl of March defeats Queen Margaret’s army at Northampton. Henry VI of England is captured.
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2 days ago · Queens' College. Queen's College Arms. (35) Queens' College stands between Queens' Lane and the river. It was founded here in 1448 by Queen Margaret of Anjou on land where Henry VI by charter of 1447 had intended to place his College of St. Bernard.
2 days ago · The adoption of the Angevin Empire label marked a re-evaluation of the times, considering that both English and French influence spread throughout the dominion in the half-century during which the union lasted. The term Angevin itself is the demonym for the residents of Anjou and its historic capital, Angers; the Plantagenets were descended from Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou, hence the term. [9 ...
5 days ago · Burdett's third chapter considers how this era's theatres represented two armed Shakespearean queens, Lady Macbeth and Margaret of Anjou. [End Page 511] She considers these figures through the lens of Marvin Carlson's theory of "ghosting": the haunting recollection in the theatre of something previously encountered within an altered context (82).
