When women ruled the world making the Renaissance in Europe
"A leading Renaissance scholar shows in this revisionist history how four powerful women redefined the culture of European monarchy in the glorious sixteenth century. Library Journal "Books and Authors to Know: Titles to Watch 2021" Sixteenth-century Europe was a time of destabilization of age-old n...
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New York, NY :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: inalienable possessions and female power
- The device for succession
- The Mary Tudor pearl
- Three queens, one poet, and the republican counselor
- "Sister" queens, Mary Stuart and Elizabeth Tudor: the solid gold baptismal font
- Regicide, republicanism, and the death of Darnley
- Mary, Queen of Scots, eighteen years imprisoned in England
- A trap for two queens
- Catherine de' Medici: tolerance and terror
- Eight Valois tapestries: Catherine de' Medici's inalienable possession
- Phillip II: the bridegroom returns
- Epilogue: the gifts they gave
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
