M.L. Johnson
hated christmas with the windsors how netflix’s one hundred years of solitude honors a beloved novel jordan hoffman contributing editor jordan hoffman is a queens, new york–based writer who has been contributing to vanity fair since 2014. his work can also be read in the ...
In England, it was a great point gained at the Revolution, that the commissions of the Judges, which had hitherto been during pleasure, should thenceforth be made during good behavior. A Judiciary, dependent on the will of the King, had proved itself the most oppressive of all tools, in ...
queens were valued mainly for their ability to create dynastic connections through marriage. Asser's Life concomitantly shows that public attitudes toward queenship in ninth-century Wessex were far more complex than mere wholesale acceptance of the actual roles available to queens within that culture. ...
authority and legitimacy, power vulnerable to the intrigue and favoritism that could characterize court life, and is often applied to the position of queens in the High Middle Ages, who held seemingly anomalous positions: without office, yet with access to the centers and machinery of government....