by Margarida Garcez Ventura, Julieta Araújo · Quidnovi · tapa dura · ISBN 9789895547920
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«D. Leonor de Aragão: a triste rainha» is the historical essay by Margarida Garcez Ventura and Julieta Araújo, published by Quidnovi in hardcover, in Portuguese.
Leonor de Aragão arrives in Portugal to marry D. Duarte, heir to the throne; the marriage seals the alliance with Aragon and draws Portugal into the sphere of the infantes of Aragon. The work portrays a cultured woman capable of governing, caught in the peninsular power struggles; appointed regent by Duarte, she ends up exiled in Castile.
Work of 95 pages published in 2011; the cover shows the Academia Portuguesa da História and the dates 1402(?)–1445.
Recommended for readers interested in the medieval history of the Iberian Peninsula and in the role of women in power.
