![]() ![]() "A long overdue biography of one of the most dramatic medieval heroines – vivid, very readable, and wonderfully detailed." Author Sarah Gristwood. "Living Like a Tudor deftly recreates the medieval landscape, drawing on the five senses to offer a glimpse of the sights, smells and tastes of 15th- through 17th-century England." Smithsonian Magazine ![]() "This insight is so rare and so valuable … a considered and scholarly account of the matriarch of the House of York" (Cecily Neville) Author Philippa Gregory "A page-turning collage of lives" Times Literary Supplement. She has been interviewed regularly for BBC radio, including Woman's Hour, and has appeared in several TV documentaries. She has been a teacher for over twenty years and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.Īmy has written for The Guardian, The TLS, The New Statesman, BBC History, The English Review, The Huffington Post, The London Magazine and contributes regularly to BBC History Magazine. ![]() She is also interested in Modernism, specifically Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group, Picasso and Post-Impressionism. Her particular interest lies in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century, in gender relations, Queenship and identity, rites of passage, pilgrimage, female orthodoxy and rebellion, superstition, magic, fertility and childbirth. Amy Licence is an historian of women's lives in the medieval and early modern period, from Queens to commoners. ![]()
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