The lady queen : the notorious reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily / Nancy Goldstone
2009, 1st U.S. edition. New York : Walker. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Item #273807
ISBN: 0802716709
Physical description; 365 p., [8] leaves of plates : maps ; 25 cm. Summary; The riveting history of a beautiful queen, a shocking murder, a papal trial--and a reign as triumphant as any in the Middle Ages. As courageous as Eleanor of Aquitaine, as astute and determined as Elizabeth I of England, Joanna, Queen of Naples, was the only female monarch in her time to rule in her own name. Subjects; Joanna I, Queen of Naples d. 1382. Queens — Italy — Naples (Kingdom) — Biography. Naples (Kingdom) — History — Jane I, 1343-1382.
Price: €9.95