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Free Download Elizabeth Norton, "She Wolves: The Notorious Queens of Medieval England"
English | ISBN: 0750947365 | 2010 | 288 pages | AZW3, EPUB | 405 KB + 698 KB
A history of the "bad girls" of England’s medieval royal dynasties, this book covers the queens who earned themselves the reputation of being somehow notorious. Some of them are well known and have been the subject of biographies-Eleanor of Aquitaine, Emma of Normandy, Isabella of France, and Anne Boleyn, for example-while others have not been written about outside academic journals. The appeal of these notorious queens, apart from their shared taste for witchcraft, murder, adultery, and incest, is that, because they were notorious, they attracted a great deal of attention during their lifetimes. She Wolves reveals much about the role of the medieval queen and the evolution of the role that led, ultimately, to the reign of Elizabeth I, and a new concept of queenship.

Free Download Alison Plowden, "Two Queens in One Isle: The Deadly Relationship of Elizabeth I & Mary Queen of Scots"
English | ISBN: 0750921684 | | 242 pages | EPUB | 401 KB
A brilliantly written study of the relationship of Elizabeth I, England’s Protestant queen, and her cousin Mary, Catholic queen of France and Scotland.

Free Download Kings, Queens and Fallen Monarchies: Royal Dynasties of Interwar Europe by Robert Stove
English | December 30th, 2024 | ISBN: 1399035428 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 9.13 MB
Explores the interwar movements to restore Europe’s deposed royal houses, examining their political significance and influence on global power dynamics.

Free Download Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions by Kate Cooper
English | March 30, 2023 | ISBN: 139980796X | 304 pages | PDF | 12 Mb
The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine’s Confessions

Free Download The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
English | May 21, 2024 | ISBN: 1541602927 | 384 pages | PDF | 28 Mb
The definitive story of the seven Cleopatras, the powerful goddess-queens of ancient Egypt

Free Download The Queens Who Fought Rome (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798882324475 | 2024 | 5 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 281 MB
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Victoria Woodson
During one of the most turbulent periods in the history of Rome, men like Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian participated in two civil wars that would spell the end of the Roman Republic and determine who would become the Roman emperor. In the middle of it all was history’s most famous woman, the Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra (69-30 B.C.), who famously seduced both Caesar and Antony and thereby positioned herself as one of the most influential people in a world of powerful men. Cleopatra was a legendary figure even to contemporary Romans and the ancient world, as Plutarch’s quote suggests, and she was a controversial figure who was equally reviled and praised through the years, depicted as a benevolent ruler and an evil seductress, sometimes at the same time. One of the reasons Hadrian’s Wall existed was to protect against enemies, and given what happened in the mid-1st century CE, the Romans’ fears was understandable.

Free Download Queens: A Culinary Passport: Exploring Ethnic Cuisine in New York City’s Most Diverse Borough by Andrea Lynn
English | September 30, 2014 | ISBN: 1250039878 | 224 pages | PDF | 18 Mb
Everyone knows New York City is the culinary epicenter of the United States. And while Manhattan gets Michelin stars and Brooklyn gets blogger hype, real culinary fanatics know that authentic ethnic food experiences happen in the restaurants of Queens. There, New York’s celebrated ethnic diversity is the most potent, with more than one million foreign-born residents. This means food lovers can travel the globe without using any vacation time: take a culinary tour of China, sip a frappe in Greece, dine on authentic Italian sausage―all without ever leaving Queens!

Free Download The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJFXQG12 | 2024 | 14 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 415 MB
Author: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Narrator: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
The definitive story of the seven Cleopatras, the powerful goddess-queens of ancient Egypt. One of history’s most iconic figures, Cleopatra is rightly remembered as a clever and charismatic ruler. But few today realize that she was the last in a long line of Egyptian queens who bore that name. In The Cleopatras, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the dramatic story of these seven incomparable women, vividly recapturing the lost world of Hellenistic Egypt and tracing the kingdom’s final centuries before its fall to Rome. The Cleopatras were Greek-speaking descendants of Ptolemy, the general who conquered Egypt alongside Alexander the Great.

Free Download Queens of Academe: Beauty Pageantry, Student Bodies, and College Life By Karen W. Tice
2012 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 0199842787 | PDF | 3 MB
Universities are unlikely venues for grading bodies, beauty, poise, and style. Nonetheless, thousands of college women have sought not only college diplomas but campus beauty titles and tiaras throughout the twentieth century, and the cultural power of beauty pageants continues into the twenty-first. In Queens of Academe, Karen W. Tice asks how, and why, does higher education remain in the beauty and body business and with what effects on student bodies and identities. Drawing on archival research and interviews as well as hundreds of hours observing college pageants on predominantly black and white campuses, Tice argues the pageants help to illuminate the shifting iterations of class, race, religion, culture, sexuality, and gender braided into campus rituals and student life. Moving beyond a binary of objectification versus empowerment, Tice offers a nuanced analysis of the making of idealized collegiate masculinities and femininities, and the stylization of higher education itself.

Free Download Elena Woodacre, "Queens and Queenship "
English | ISBN: 1641891890 | 2021 | 138 pages | PDF | 1500 KB
This work looks at queenship in a global, timeless sense―examining the role of queens, empresses, and other royal women from the ancient and classical period through to nearly the present day on every continent. By looking at queenship in this comparative, longue durée way, we can start to see connecting threads and continuity over time and space as well as the change and development and comparisons of how the queen’s role differed in various cultural contexts. A wide variety of examples are given to explain and contextualize key themes in queenship: family and dynasty, rulership, and image crafting. The introduction provides a brief overview of the development of queenship studies and a discussion of the ideals that queens were expected to conform to. This book offers a radically new perspective on queenship studies which enables new insights into the queen’s role as the preeminent woman in the realm.