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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5977748, member: 110504"]To second [USER=97508]@Steven Michael Gardner[/USER] and [USER=77704]@panzerman[/USER], the impression I get is that Isabella's reputation as 'the she-wolf of France' is mostly reducible to a combination of xenophobia toward the French, misogyny, and guilt by association. Not necessarily in that order. But this was a century and change after the end of the Angevin Empire (under which, numerous English barons held land on both sides of the Channel --and spoke some version of French as their first language); misogyny --well, kind of obvious; with the guilt by association from her corule of England, with her consort, Roger Mortimer. This happened from Edward II's deposition in 1327, to the apprehension and hanging of Mortimer in 1330.</p><p>During the interval, Mortimer implemented an increasingly despotic rule, evoking the dictatorship of Oliver Cromwell centuries later. After three years, enough of the baronage got suitably p-ssed off enough to allow the future Edward III's countercoup in 1330.</p><p>Their are some good books on this stuff. (All of them could be considered 'popular' histories, but it doesn't affect their methodology for a minute. Fully annotated, with pages of bibliography.)</p><p>Mortimer, Ian. The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer. (2003/4.)</p><p>Warner, Kathryn. Isabella of France: The Rebel Queen. (2006.)</p><p>Weir, Alison. Queen Isabella. (2005.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5977748, member: 110504"]To second [USER=97508]@Steven Michael Gardner[/USER] and [USER=77704]@panzerman[/USER], the impression I get is that Isabella's reputation as 'the she-wolf of France' is mostly reducible to a combination of xenophobia toward the French, misogyny, and guilt by association. Not necessarily in that order. But this was a century and change after the end of the Angevin Empire (under which, numerous English barons held land on both sides of the Channel --and spoke some version of French as their first language); misogyny --well, kind of obvious; with the guilt by association from her corule of England, with her consort, Roger Mortimer. This happened from Edward II's deposition in 1327, to the apprehension and hanging of Mortimer in 1330. During the interval, Mortimer implemented an increasingly despotic rule, evoking the dictatorship of Oliver Cromwell centuries later. After three years, enough of the baronage got suitably p-ssed off enough to allow the future Edward III's countercoup in 1330. Their are some good books on this stuff. (All of them could be considered 'popular' histories, but it doesn't affect their methodology for a minute. Fully annotated, with pages of bibliography.) Mortimer, Ian. The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer. (2003/4.) Warner, Kathryn. Isabella of France: The Rebel Queen. (2006.) Weir, Alison. Queen Isabella. (2005.)[/QUOTE]
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