Travels With a Medieval Queen: The Journey of a Sicilian Princess: The Journey of a Sicilian Princess to Reclaim Her Father's Crown - Softcover

Taylor Simeti, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842126482 ISBN 13: 9781842126486

Verlag: Phoenix, 2003

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In 1185, the 32-year- old Constance of Sicily, a princess with the most magnificent dowry Europe has ever seen, was betrothed to the 21-year-old Henry, cold-hearted son of the great German Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa. Eight years later, the Sicilian throne lies empty and Henry and Constance (pregnant for the first time at 40) travel south to stake their claim against the usurper Tancredi's family. It is this journey that Taylor Simeti retraces, along the way contrasting medieval society with modern, capturing what the life of the medieval queen must have been like, exploring the idea of travel and pilgrimage, and expressing, above all, a deep empathy for her subject.

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In the second half of the 12th century 31-year-old Constance, a Sicilian princess with the most magnificent dowry Europe had ever seen, was sent as an offering to 21-year-old Henry, son of the great German Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa. Nine years later, now Holy Roman Empress and pregnant, Constance travelled from Germany back to Palermo to reclaim her father's crown from the usurper, Tancredi. While peppered with stories and people from the crusades including Eleanor of Aquitaine and Richard the Lionheart, no one is more exthralling than Constance herself. Mary Taylor Simeti retraces her steps through urban sprawl and unchanged medieval Italian villages exploring magnificent churches and cloisters and dirt tracks that have become motorways to bring Constance back to life and to recreate her experiences in intimate detail. "As Constance passes Rome, Naples and Salerno her story becomes genuinely moving... meticulous reconstruction." Spectator "Simeti is a pleasingly honest travel writer... combines admirable erudition with imaginative licence... she writes feelingly... Her material may be fragmentary but the pieces glitter." Sunday Times

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• Verlag: Phoenix
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1842126482
• ISBN 13: 9781842126486
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368