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Travels with a Medieval Queen: The Journey of a Sicilian Princess (2002)

de Mary Taylor Simeti

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Living in the second half of the 12th century, Princess Constance of Hauteville was both witness and protagonist in what could be considered the most exciting period in Medieval history. There had been a remarkable growth in the population and in the economy of western Europe and a consequent expansion of cities and commerce. With the support of the secular rulers and the Church, knighthood had been institutionalised and the Courtly Love school of poetry was born. In 1185, 32 year old Constance of Sicily, a princess with the most magnificent dowry Europe has ever seen, was betrothed to 21 year old Henry, cold-hearted son of the great German Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa. Eight years later, the Sicilian throne lies empty and Henry and Constance (pregnant for the first time at 40) travel south to stake their claim against the usurper, Tancredi's family.… (més)
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Travels with a Medieval Queen is an attempt at a biography-cum-travel-book, with Taylor Simeti and a friend recreating the trip which Constance of Sicily made in 1194 from southern Germany down to the tip of Italy. Married to the unlikeable Emperor Henry VI and at that point 40-years-old, Constance discovered en route that she was pregnant for the first time; in central Italy, she would give birth to the future Emperor Frederick II. I started out enjoying it as a book which, while not scholarly or deep (and based on information which at points was slightly dated) could at least be an amiable introduction to the period, the woman and the region. Yet the more I read, the more I was irritated by the author saying that they reached such-and-such town, but that she hadn't researched it yet so sadly she couldn't tell us anything about X thing which they'd driven past in ignorance. I get that this trip was carried out in '96 and written up in '02 so looking things up via wifi wasn't exactly possible, but surely you'd try to put in quite a bit of time in the library before driving the length of Italy?

And then she included the horoscope she'd had done for Constance. And included quite a bit of discussion as to how the fact that Constance was a Pisces would affect her actions. At which point I gave the book the side-eye so hard that I think I sprained something. ( )
  siriaeve | Feb 3, 2014 |
Informative and nice to read. But slightly too much about Mary and too little about Constance ( )
  gregordijkhuis | Oct 1, 2008 |
This book is about 2 house wifes that sort of travel along the route of a queens journey. Not enough facts to base this exact route of her journey and lots of personal opinions. ( )
  brin1956 | Feb 14, 2007 |
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Living in the second half of the 12th century, Princess Constance of Hauteville was both witness and protagonist in what could be considered the most exciting period in Medieval history. There had been a remarkable growth in the population and in the economy of western Europe and a consequent expansion of cities and commerce. With the support of the secular rulers and the Church, knighthood had been institutionalised and the Courtly Love school of poetry was born. In 1185, 32 year old Constance of Sicily, a princess with the most magnificent dowry Europe has ever seen, was betrothed to 21 year old Henry, cold-hearted son of the great German Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa. Eight years later, the Sicilian throne lies empty and Henry and Constance (pregnant for the first time at 40) travel south to stake their claim against the usurper, Tancredi's family.

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