Table of Contents

Introduction. 1. Kingship and masculinity in late medieval England 2. Approaching Henry V and Henry VI Part I. Henry V 3. Son and brother 4. The new man 5. Agincourt 6. Hegemonic Henry Part II Henry VI 7. The king who never grew up 8. The beginning of personal rule? 9. The unwarlike king 10. Marriage and chastity 11. Recovery and breakdown 12. Margaret, Prince Edward and a substitute kingship 13. Epilogue

About the Author

Katherine Lewis

Reviews

'Lewis admirably evaluates Henry V and Henry VI by reading monarchy through the lens of gender discourse. Summing Up: Recommended' - J. P. Huffman, Messiah College in CHOICE"The work’s focus on masculinity and gender theory provides an original perspective which allows us to see familiar events in a new light, but its analysis is always grounded in the primary sources and based on an awareness of the biases, omissions and shortcomings of the surviving evidence... Both for the originality of its overall approach and for the insights of its detailed analysis, it should be read by anyone with an interest in medieval English political life." - S. H. Rigby in English Historical Review"This will be an invaluable book for anyone wishing to introduce politics into an undergraduate or graduate course on gender history, or gender into a course focused on politics."
Christopher Fletcher in Gender & History

Lewis’s work makes a major contribution to the history of kingship and of gender. This is an exemplary study that blends the political and the cultural in a groundbreaking study of two of the most crucial characters in later medieval English history. Mark Ormrod, University of York, UK 'Lewis admirably evaluates Henry V and Henry VI by reading monarchy through the lens of gender discourse. Summing Up: Recommended' - J. P. Huffman, Messiah College in CHOICE"[This book] is written in an engaging but impeccably scholarly manner and will be of interest to medieval
historians and historians and theorists of gender." -Thomas Ward, Loyola Marymount, USA"There is much to commend Katherine J. Lewis' book and the scholarship is careful and engaging in style…a very welcome addition to the study of masculinity and kingship." -Kirsten Fenton"The work’s focus on masculinity and gender theory provides an original perspective which allows us to see familiar events in a new light, but its analysis is always grounded in the primary sources and based on an awareness of the biases, omissions and shortcomings of the surviving evidence... Both for the originality of its overall approach and for the insights of its detailed analysis, it should be read by anyone with an interest in medieval English political life." - S. H. Rigby in English Historical Review"This will be an invaluable book for anyone wishing to introduce politics into an undergraduate or graduate course on gender history, or gender into a course focused on politics."
Christopher Fletcher in Gender & History