Titlebook: Virtuous or Villainess? The Image of the Royal Mother from the Early Medieval to the Early Modern Er; Carey Fleiner,Elena Woodacre Book 20

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“Mother of Heroes, Most Beautiful of Mothers”: Mathilda of Flanders and Royal Motherhood in the Elevatronage. Three generations of aristocratic medieval ruling mothers changed the political landscape of the Anglo-Norman realm and beyond. Two important sources anchor my analysis of this foundational part of Mathilda’s identity: the Mathildine speech in Orderic Vitalis’ . and Fulcoius of Beauvais’ . poem.

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“Greatest in Her Offspring”: Motherhood and the Empress Matilda but a series of reverses caused her to bring over her eldest son, Henry, to bolster her claim to the throne. In this essay, I will discuss Matilda’s role as a mother, which, as I shall argue, was always subordinate to her political and dynastic ambitions.

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The Empress Matilda and Motherhood in Popular Fiction, 1970s to the Presentbetween the factual Matilda and the “she-wolf” (Castor 2011) of fiction. Furthermore, the chapter will survey the major fictional subgenre in the works of Plaidy, Jones, and Garwood featuring an affair between Matilda and Stephen—and Henry II as Stephen’s son—and probe its seeming importance to a fictional narrative.

Exposition