Télécharger le livre :  Three Medieval Queens
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This book is an innovative study offering the first examination of how three fourteenth-century English queens, Margaret of France, Isabella of France, and Philippa of Hainault, exercised power and authority. It frames its analysis around four major themes: gender;...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-06-04
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  A Monarchy of Letters
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This book examines Elizabeth's correspondence with several significant rulers, analyzing how her letters were constructed, drafted and presented, the rhetorical strategies used, and the role these letters played in facilitating diplomatic relations.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-05-16
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Wicked Women of Tudor England
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This fascinating study delves into the lives of six Tudor women celebrated for their reputed wickedness. Collected here are accounts of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, Anne Seymour, Lettice Dudley, and Jane and Alice More. Warnicke rescues these women from historical...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-05-14
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  The French Queen's Letters
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A fresh biography of Mary Tudor which challenges conventional views of her as a weeping hysteric and love-struck romantic, providing instead the portrait of a queen who drew on two sources of authority to increase the power of her position: epistolary conventions and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-04-11
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  The Foreign Relations of Elizabeth I
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This edited volume brings together a collection of provocative essays examining a number of different facets of Elizabethan foreign affairs, encompassing England and The British Isles, Europe, and the dynamic civilization of Islam. As an entirely domestic queen who...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-04-11
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Tudor Queenship
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This book brings together a selection of recent, cutting-edge research which, for the first time, challenges commonplace arguments about Mary and Elizabeth's relative successes or failures in order to rethink Tudor queenship.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-10-18
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Queenship and Voice in Medieval Northern Europe
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This book examines female lordship and the power of the political voice in medieval Northern Europe, focusing on three prominent, foreign-born queens of medieval Scandinavia - Agnes of Denmark (d. 1304), Eufemia of Norway (d. 1312) and Margareta of Denmark/Sweden (d....

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-09-27
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  The Death of Elizabeth I
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The death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603 was greeted by an outpouring of official proclamations, gossip-filled letters, tense diary entries, diplomatic dispatches, and somber sermons. English poets wrote hundreds of elegies to Elizabeth, and playwrights began bringing her...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-08-30
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  The Face of Queenship
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The Face of Queenship investigates the aesthetic, political, and gender-related meanings in representations of Elizabeth I by her contemporaries. By attending to eyewitness reports, poetry, portraiture, and discourses on beauty and cosmetics, this book shows how the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-05-10
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Learned Queen
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The first book to examine Elizabeth I as a learned princess, Learned Queen examines Elizabeth's own demonstrations of erudition alongside literary works produced by such political luminaries as Sir Philip Sidney and Robert Devereux, earl of Essex.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-12-07
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Elizabeth of York
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This book tells the story of the queen whose marriage to King Henry VII ended England's Wars of the Roses and inaugurated the 118-year Tudor dynasty. Best known as the mother of Henry VIII and grandmother of Elizabeth I, this Queen Elizabeth contributed far beyond the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-09-28
Collection : Queenship and Power
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