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Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe: Proceedings of a Conference held at King's College London, April 1995

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Technically, I probably shouldn't review this book, since I wasn't able to finish most of the chapters in it. But then, that's exactly the problem: most of them are plain boring. I would never have guessed that anyone could make the study of medieval women as dull as ditchwater. My goodness, are most of the sketches of these women dry and technical! Aside from Chapter 3, `Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France 1193-1223' and Chapter 13, `The Image of the Queen in Old French Literature', both of which proved fairly interesting, they either bored me all the way through, or bored me so severely that I gave up before the end of the chapter.

This book is subtitled `Proceedings of a conference held at King's College London April 1995'. What a dry, uninteresting conference it must have been.

If you already know a fair bit about any of the women covered and want some technical information such as dates, places and events, it might be worth a look at. But if you want to read an interesting book about the lives of prominent medieval women, look elsewhere.