Alison Weir: Queens of the Age of Chivalry

Lichfield Literature Festival 2023

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Join best-selling writer, historian and festival favourite, Alison Weir, for her latest conjuring of the medieval past. The turbulent, brutal Age of Chivalry saw two kings deposed, the Black Death, the Peasants’ Revolt, the Hundred Years’ War against France and savage baronial wars against the monarchy in which these queens were passionately involved. During this time, medieval queens were dynastic trophies.  As women, little was expected of them but obedience, kindness, piety, good works and most of all the bearing of children – boys to secure the succession and girls for diplomatic alliances. But some Plantagenet queens of the high Middle Ages dramatically broke away from these restrictions. In Queens of the Age of Chivalry,  she uses personal letters and wonderfully graphic sources to evoke the lives of five remarkable queens and brilliantly recreate this truly dramatic period of history.

Alison Weir is the biggest-selling female historian in the UK. She has published thirty-two titles and sold more than 3 million books.

LFF Priority Booking Opens: Platinum/Founder/Millennium/Gold – 1st February | Silver/Bronze: 8th February
General Booking Opens: 15th February