Anne of Bohemia

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🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Eleanor Janega continues Gone Medieval’s special series of podcasts about Medieval Queens with a look at Queen Anne of Bohemia, the first wife of England’s King Richard II.

Eleanor is joined by Kristen Gaiman, lecturer at the University of Toledo, Ohio, to find out about Anne’s influence on English culture, how queens could work to mitigate the worst excesses of kings, and what childlessness meant in a royal context.

This episode was edited by Joseph Knight and produced by Rob Weinberg.

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1:33.6	Hello and welcome to Gone Medieval from History Hit.
1:36.4	I'm Eleanor Janiga and in today's episode we'll be talking about Queen Anne of Bohemia,
1:41.2	how queens could work to mitigate the worst excesses of kings, what childlessness meant in
1:46.0	a royal context and Anne's influence on English culture. I am just beyond excited to be joined
1:53.1	by the brilliant Kristen Gaiman. She is a historian of late medieval England and a lecture at the
1:58.0	University of Toledo. Her research interests include the Islamic Caliphate, sexuality and gender
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