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Lädt ... The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily (2018. Auflage)von Nancy Goldstone (Autor)
Werk-InformationenKönigin unter Königen: Das einzigartige Leben der Johanna von Neapel von Nancy Goldstone
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Despite liking Goldstone's history books in the past, this one just hasn't grabbed me, so I'm going to call it a DNF. I usually like these glimpses into what life might have been like for royal/upper class women in times long ago. This one takes place in the 1300s. But it is feeling too much like a string of disasters and wars and too little of really getting to a characterization of Joanna I. I know it's hard to piece that together 700 years after events, but I'm not getting enough about her life, decisions, or period details to keep me interested. This was a very colourful and dramatic slice of Medieval European history focusing on a little known and fascinating ruler, one of the most powerful female rulers of the Medieval age. "During her long, eventful reign, Joanna held together a large and far-flung dominion, which included Provence and all of southern Italy, and even expanded her rule, however briefly, into Sicily and Piedmont.....For more than thirty years, this queen fed the poor and cared for the sick; built churches and hospitals; reduced crime and promoted peace; protected trade and introduced new industry within her borders. She guided her subjects to recovery from the many instances of plague, war, famine, and depression endemic to the second half of the fourteenth century." So, why is she called the "notorious" Queen? This is because of the accusation that she murdered her first husband Andrew of Hungary, though she was cleared of this in a trial in 1348. However, this set off a very turbulent period of threatened and actual invasion, negotiating with 5 or 6 successive popes, marital turmoil with the first three of her four husbands, and seeing the deaths of her young children by Andrew and by her second husband Louis of Taranto. Joanna's final fall came at the hands of another Hungarian invasion, after she fell foul of the battles of rival Popes at the time of the Great Schism of the Papacy, an event "which would bitterly divide the church for the next forty years and be as damaging to Europe, and especially to the kingdom of Naples, as any war". Her murder as a wretched prisoner in a remote castle I found particularly sad and bathetic, an ignominious end to a great ruler. In conclusion, the author rues the fact that Joanna's story "when it is recounted at all, focuses entirely on her notoriety, as the queen who murdered her husband, and not on the many impressive accomplishments of her reign." A great read. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
The riveting history of a beautiful queen, a shocking murder, a papal trial--and a reign as triumphant as any in the Middle Ages. As courageous as Eleanor of Aquitaine, as astute and determined as Elizabeth I of England, Joanna, Queen of Naples, was the only female monarch in her time to rule in her own name. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Naples under Joanna had a mix of fortunes; she entertained both Boccaccio and Petrarch, but also had to endure the Black Death, warfare, and bad luck in husbands (she was put on trial in Papal court for the murder of her first husband, Andrew of Hungary, and her next two, Louis of Taranto and James IV of Majorca, died on campaign). Joanna herself was eventually murdered while a prisoner of Charles of Durazzo (probably; Charles claimed she died of “natural causes”).
Author Nancy Goldstone has written a readable and interesting book. There is, alas, no real feel for Joanna as a person – i.e., what she ate, how she took her leisure, etc. - but that can’t really be helped; there’s not much feel for the life of anybody during this time period. Good maps and genealogical trees; contemporary illustrations. A somewhat sparse index. ( )