She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth

Castor examines four women who exercised royal power in England before Elizabeth I: the Empress Matilda in the twelfth-century civil war; Eleanor of Aquitaine as queen and regent; Isabella of France, who deposed Edward II; and Margaret of Anjou in the Wars of the Roses. She uses chronicles and records to show how each ruled, was resisted, and was remembered as unnatural. The book is a linked set of political biographies, not a general history of medieval queenship and not a study of Elizabeth herself except as a later standard of comparison.

Bound in red cloth cover blocked in black with a design based on the Matilda seal, drawn by Neil Gower. Black slipcase front blocked in silver with a phrase.