Thursday, March 10, 2011

An English Royal Wedding – from the Middle Ages

A recent article has detailed the wedding of an English princess in the fourteenth century, showing how lavish the Middle Ages could be.

In her article, “Isabella da Coucy, Daughter of Edward III: The Exception who proves the rule,” Jessica Lutkin examines the life of the eldest daughter of the famous English monarch. Isabella was born in 1332 and lived through many of the important events that shaped England in the fourteenth century.

Click here to read this article from Medievalists.net