{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Empress Matilda - The Anarchy, Queenship &amp; Power","description":" 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 \u2013 Queen Matilda, and how did these women conform&amp;nbsp;to,&amp;nbsp;or disrupt medieval expectations of Queenship?&amp;nbsp;  ","author_name":"Historic Royal Palaces Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/www.hrp.org.uk","html":"<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>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/39730250"}