13 Top biography books like Medieval Royal Mistresses: Mischievous Women who Slept with Kings and Princes by Julia A. Hickey

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Medieval Royal Mistresses: Mischievous Women who Slept with Kings and Princes

By: Julia A. Hickey

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Marriage for Medieval kings was about politics, power and the provision of legitimate heirs. Mistre…

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1. Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe

By: Nancy Goldstone

4.00

Format: 32 pages,

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

2. The King's Concubine: A Novel of Alice Perrers

By: Anne O'Brien

4.26

Format: None pages,

A child born in the plague year of 1348, abandoned and raised within the oppressive walls of a conv… read more

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3. The Private Lives of the Tudors

By: Tracy Borman

4.11

Format: 70 pages, Hardcover

'I do not live in a corner. A thousand eyes see all I do.' Elizabeth I The Tudor monarchs were cons… read more

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4. Katherine Swynford

By: None

3.69

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

Jeannette Lucraft presents this historical biography of Katherine Swynford, a powerful figure in th… read more

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5. Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

By: Naomi Alderman

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Mystery’s legendary detective Jane M… read more

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6. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

By: Dan Jones

4.41

Format: 636 pages, Hardcover

An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066

By: Marc Morris

4.34

Format: 508 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • british literature
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8. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

By: Charles Spencer

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Tim… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • british literature
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9. Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)

By: Dan Jones

3.92

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel… read more

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"What matters is that you did not know the story. And the reason you did not...is that our ancestor William - through his deeds of arms, his force of personality and his vast conquests - had achieved …"

-Dan Jones, Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)

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10. The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World

By: Shelley Puhak

4.09

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded i… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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11. The Witch and the Tsar

By: Olesya Salnikova Gilmore

3.56

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning debut novel, the maligned and immortal witch of legend known as Baba Yaga will ris… read more

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"Once war is on men's minds, it festers within, claiming them."

-Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, The Witch and the Tsar

"Whoever came ... did so when their prayers had gone unanswered, when the mortal healers had thrown up their hands. They came in the depths of their despair."

-Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, The Witch and the Tsar

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12. The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England's Most Famous Dynasty

By: Sarah Gristwood

3.71

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Sarah Gristwood's The Tudors in Love offers a brilliant history of the Tudor dynasty, showing how t… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • british literature
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13. The Final Year of Anne Boleyn

By: Natalie Grueninger

4.32

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

There are few women in English history more famous or controversial than Queen Anne Boleyn. She was… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • british literature
"Try me good king, but let me have a lawful trial, and let not my sworn enemies sit as my accusers and judges… My last and only request shall be, that myself may only bear the burden of your grace’s d…"

-Natalie Grueninger, The Final Year of Anne Boleyn

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14. The Shadow of Perseus

By: Claire Heywood

3.65

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

Danae: Banished from her homeland thanks to a prophecy foretelling that her unborn child will one … read more

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15. Queens of the Age of Chivalry (England's Medieval Queens Book 3)

By: Alison Weir

4.22

Format: 478 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of Britain's best selling historians, a sweeping and magisterial history of the extraordin… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • british literature
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16. Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History

By: Tracy Borman

4.26

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Anne Boleyn is a subject of enduring fascination. By far the most famous of Henry VIII's six wives,… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • british literature
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17. Phaedra

By: Laura Shepperson

3.32

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Debut novelist Laura Shepperson offers a powerful feminist retelling of Phaedra and her unyielding … read more

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18. The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster

By: Helen Carr

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Gaunt was son of Edward III, brother to the Black Prince, father to Henry IV and the sire of all th… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • british literature
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19. King Alfred's Daughter

By: David Stokes

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

King Alfred is dead and the achievements that made him great are in jeopardy. Rebels challenge the … read more

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Cover of The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega

20. The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society

By: Eleanor Janega

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited h… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Her Lessons in Persuasion (School for Scoundrels, #1)

By: Megan Frampton

3.64

Format: 357 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Megan Frampton dazzles in the first book in her new series, A School for Scoundrels. Five gentlemen… read more

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22. Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine: Founding an Empire

By: Matthew Lewis

4.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In 1154 Henry II came to the throne with his queen, the formidable Eleanor of Aquitaine, and establ… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
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23. Victorian Murderesses

By: Debbie Blake

4.03

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

The Victorian belief that women were the ‘weaker sex’ who were expected to devote themselves entire… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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24. Medieval Royal Mistresses: Mischievous Women who Slept with Kings and Princes

By: Julia A. Hickey

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Marriage for Medieval kings was about politics, power and the provision of legitimate heirs. Mistre… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • british literature
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25. The Woodville Women: 100 Years of Plantagenet and Tudor History

By: Sarah J. Hodder

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth Woodville, queen to Edward IV and mother of the Princes in the Tower. Elizabeth of Yor… read more

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  • biography
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26. The Granddaughters of Edward III

By: Kathryn Warner

4.00

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Edward III may be known for his restoration of English kingly authority after the disastrous and my… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. The Sixteenth Century in 100 Women

By: Amy Licence

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This retelling of the sixteenth century introduces the reader to a gallery of amazing women, from q… read more

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  • biography
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28. Broadmoor Inmates: True Crime Tales of Life and Death in the Asylum

By: Nicola Sly

3.84

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Broadmoor True Crime Tales of Life and Death in the Asylum brings together the histories of people… read more

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29. Matilda II: The Forgotten Queen

By: Joanna Arman

3.75

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“By quoting contemporary letters and histories, Arman brings this woman and her world vividly to li… read more

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  • biography
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30. Kitty Fisher: The First Female Celebrity

By: Joanne Major

3.81

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

‘Lucy Locket lost her pocket, Kitty Fisher found it, not a penny was there in it, only rib… read more

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Cover of Sex and Sexuality in Medieval England by Kathryn  Warner

31. Sex and Sexuality in Medieval England

By: Kathryn Warner

3.55

Format: 171 pages, Hardcover

Sex and Sexuality in Medieval England allows the reader a peek beneath the bedsheets of our medieva… read more

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