🎧 Anne of Bohemia
🎧 Gone Medieval
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38m
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 Geaman, 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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