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.
ISBN: | 9780230620308 |
Publication date: | 29th March 2011 |
Author: | Erin A Sadlack |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan US |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 266 pages |
Series: | Queenship and Power |
Genres: |
European history Social and cultural history History Biography, Literature and Literary studies |