13th May – The French Queen’s Letters: Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe by Erin A Sadlack
Part of the ‘Queenship and Power’ series published by Palgrave Macmillan.
’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.’
Contents includes:
A Queenly Education
Becoming the Queen
Marrying Where ‘my mynd is’
Always the French Queen: Identity Politics
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