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In Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England, Carole Levin and Robert Bucholz provide a forum for the underexamined, anomalous reigns of queens in history. These regimes, primarily regarded as interruptions to the "normal" male monarchy, have been examined largely as isolated c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Levin, Carole, 1948-, Bucholz, R. O., 1958-
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009.
Temas:
Queens > Great Britain > History.
Power (Social sciences) > Great Britain > History.
HISTORY.
Politics and government
Power (Social sciences)
Queens
Great Britain > Politics and government.
Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement.
Great Britain
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: It's good to be queen / Robert Bucholz & Carole Levin
  • "Greater by marriage" : the matrimonial career of the Empress Matilda / Charles Beem
  • Widow princess or neglected queen? Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII, and English public opinion, 1533-1536 / Timothy G. Elston
  • "Most godly heart fraight with al mercie" : queens' mercy during the reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I / Sarah Duncan
  • Princess Elizabeth travels across her kingdom : in life, in text, and on stage / Carole Levin
  • Marriage à la mode, 1559 : Elisabeth de Valois, Elizabeth I, and the changing practice of dynastic marriage / John Watkins
  • Queen Solomon : an international Elizabeth I in 1569 / Linda S. Shenk
  • The virgin and the widow : the political finesse of Elizabeth I and Catherine de' Medici / Elaine Kruse
  • Crafting queens : early modern readings of Esther / Michele Osherow
  • "Shine like an angel with thy starry crown" : Queen Elizabeth the angelic / Anna Riehl
  • Shakespeare's Queen Cleopatra : an act of translation / Richardine Woodall
  • "She is the man, and raignes" : popular representations of Henrietta Maria during the English civil wars / Michelle A. White
  • Sex and the single queen : the erotic lives of Elizabeth Tudor in seventeenth-century England / Marjorie Swann
  • The "stomach of a queen," or size matters : gender, body image, and the historical reputation of Queen Anne / Robert Bucholz
  • Two poems / Amber Harris Leichner.

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