1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Empress Matilda&amp;nbsp;wielded&amp;nbsp;an extraordinary amount of power during the period known as the Anarchy in the&amp;nbsp;12th&amp;nbsp;century,&amp;nbsp;yet she&amp;nbsp;just&amp;nbsp;missed out on&amp;nbsp;being&amp;nbsp;crowned&amp;nbsp;the first&amp;nbsp;queen regnant in England.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Originally chosen&amp;nbsp;as heir&amp;nbsp;for her abilities as a ruler,&amp;nbsp;Matilda was&amp;nbsp;determined to fight her cause&amp;nbsp;when&amp;nbsp;her throne&amp;nbsp;was&amp;nbsp;usurped by her cousin&amp;nbsp;Stephen. But how was she&amp;nbsp;viewed&amp;nbsp;by contemporaries, and what is the legacy she left behind?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Join&amp;nbsp;Curator Charles Farris, alongside Professors Louise Wilkinson and Elisabeth Van Houts,&amp;nbsp;for an in depth&amp;nbsp;look into&amp;nbsp;how Matilda&amp;nbsp;pushed the limits and possibilities of female power. Who was her counter-part – Queen Matilda, and how did these women conform&amp;nbsp;to,&amp;nbsp;or disrupt medieval expectations of Queenship?&amp;nbsp; Historic Royal Palaces Podcast https://www.hrp.org.uk <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/39730250/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/item/39730250