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Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.1840922449
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Viking Adult
Manufacturer: Viking Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: April 19, 2007
Publisher: Viking Adult
Release Date: April 19, 2007
Studio: Viking Adult
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Editorial Review:
Four Queens is a rich pageant of glamour, intrigue, and feminine power at a time when women were thought to have played limited roles. In thirteenth-century Europe, four sisters from a single familyMarguerite, Eleanor, Sanchia, and Beatrice of Provençerose from obscurity to become the queens of, respectively, France, England, Germany, and Sicily. All four were beautiful, cultured, and ambitious, and their stories offer a window into the era of chivalry, crusades, poetry, knights, and monarchs that will appeal to fans of Alison Weir and Antonia Fraser.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Did not receive book I ordered
This is the first time I have ordered something from Amazon and felt cheated. I ordered Four Queens, was delighted when I opened the package, and then received a suprise when I opened the book. The sleeve on the outside was the book I wanted and the book inside is some kind of mystery novel!! I don't know if this was done on purpose--hopefully just an error--but I guess I learned my lesson about buying hardcover books:(. They are lucky I am too lazy to return it.
Rating: - Reading History With Pleasure
While there are indeed some inaccuracies in the book and some moments when the historical moment is glossed over with a single sentence, I found Four Queens to yet be an engaging read. The professional historian would likely choose books authored by other professionals, but certainly Goldstone did an extraordinary amount of research for this book even if she didn't get every detail down. What she did get down makes for good reading - if you're reading for pleasure and enjoy the sagas even softly ... Read More
Rating:  - I must add another disappointed voice to the chorus...
I must admit that I very much looked forward to reading Ms. Goldstone's book, so it was with a growing sense of disappointment that I continued to turn the pages. Ms. Goldstone does have an engaging, albeit uneven, style of writing, but after I started to find spelling incongruities and sloppiness in her representation of facts, I started to feel slightly cheated. Medieval European historical fiction is a favorite reading genre of mine, but I was "underwhelmed" after having read the first few chapters. ... Read More
Rating: - Popular History in Search of a Fact Checker
My love of medieval history and soft-spot for popular history made this book a natural for me. The story of four daughters of the Count of Provence who became "queens" is set in an era I've study quite a bit yet (back in college!) I know relatively little about Marguerite, Eleanor, Sanchia and Beatrice.
Any biography of a major figure from the 13 century has hurdles: few contemporaneous first-hand accounts, few to none documents written by the figures themselves, etc. These problems are compounded ... Read More
Rating: - Four Sisters Who All Became Queens in the 1200's.
Reader friendly nonfiction historical. All interesting information about Louis the Ninth, Henry the Third, and others; most interesting to me were the four sisters, but of course the book doesn't concentrate on them as much as the crusades, and the men. I would love a novelist to tackle this story. Loads and loads of info on that time period in France, England, Italy. Not enough on the four sisters.
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