The French Queen’s Letters Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe
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 the rhetoric of chivalry that im...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Palgrave Macmillan US
2011, 2011
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| Series: | Queenship and Power
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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 the rhetoric of chivalry that imbued the French and English courts |
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| Physical Description: | XIII, 266 p. 3 illus online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780230118560 |