Queenship and Power: Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe

Sadlack, E.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2011-03-29

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230620308

DOI: 10.1057/9780230118560

Dimensions: 229cm x152cm

Pages: 266