![]() ![]() ![]() Goldstone effectively proves Joanna's innate leadership through the queen's mastery of complex legal arguments and her formidable resilience through four husbands and relentless challenges to her royal status. Joanna repeatedly suffered violently jealous consorts, intrusive popes and envious relatives. Although primarily set in pre-Renaissance Naples, familiar contemporaries such as England's Black Prince and St. ![]() Adding to the fray was Joanna's military support for “anti-pope” Clement VII against Pope Urban VI, ultimately helping create the Great Schism. ) expertly describes bloodthirsty 14th-century politics and the complex family entanglements that encouraged siblings and cousins to clash over kingdoms like toddlers brawling over toys. Resilient Queen Joanna of Naples (1326–1382) weathered overwhelming political challenges, financial ruin and a papal-run murder trial for the death of her Hungarian husband-all by age 22. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |