Dr Sadlack e-mailed me to say that her book, \u2018The French Queen\u2019s Letters: Mary Tudor and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe\u2019 is now on sale. <\/p>\n
Originally due to be published on 13th May in the UK, you can now order it from Amazon.co.uk. It will be on sale in the USA on 12th April.<\/p>\n
Part of the \u2018Queenship and Power\u2019 series published by Palgrave Macmillan, \u2018The French Queen\u2019s Letters\u2019 is:<\/p>\n
\u2019A 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.\u2019<\/p>\n
From Palgrave Macmillan.com<\/i><\/p>\n
Contents includes:<\/p>\n
A Queenly Education
\nBecoming the Queen
\nMarrying Where ‘my mynd is’
\nAlways the French Queen: Identity Politics<\/p>\n
Reviews<\/b><\/u><\/p>\n
\u201cSadlack\u2019s book frees Mary Tudor, the French Queen, from the role of pretty pantomime princess in which she has too often been cast by historians. This engaging revisionist study of Mary\u2019s life and correspondence finds little of the dippy but demanding rich girl of myth. Sadlack shows Mary to have been an astute member of the Tudor dynasty, in every sense a political queen, and one adept at using informal networks of female power and patronage to assert her English and French royal status.\u201d\u2014 Glenn Richardson, Reader in Early-Modern History, St. Mary\u2019s University College, UK<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an original approach to a fascinating historical figure. Sadlack\u2019s thorough knowledge of recent scholarship on women\u2019s letters and epistolary rhetoric enables her to read Mary\u2019s letters as strategic epistolary tools, crafted in terms of aptum, relating to the character of her reader, and of rhetorical ethos and pathos, carefully deployed to advance her goals. The study of women\u2019s agency through letters is currently receiving much attention, and Sadlack\u2019s study makes an important contribution to this field. This biography will be the first to take Mary seriously as an actor and an agent in her own life, and to study the impact of her political interventions.\u201d\u2014Jane Couchman, Professor Emerita, French Studies, Multidisciplinary Studies, and Women\u2019s Studies, York University, Canada<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cThe book combines meticulous archival work with rhetorical analysis to produce a fresh and cogent portrait of Mary Tudor\u2019s efforts to use her letters to control not only her own fate but also to influence court politics in two nations. The author\u2019s careful recovery, translation, and editing of Mary Tudor\u2019s letters will make this book valuable to students, professors, and scholars studying early modern English and French history, early modern literature, and the lives of early modern women.\u201d\u2014Catherine Loomis, Associate Professor of English and Women\u2019s Studies, University of New Orleans<\/b><\/p>\n
From Palgrave Macmillan.com<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n Lady Jane<\/b><\/u><\/p>\n Mary Tudor was the grandmother of Lady Jane Grey.<\/p>\n There are 3 references to Jane and that these relate to her education, the succession and to Mary\u2019s possible ownership of some tapestries.<\/p>\n Interview<\/b><\/u><\/p>\n You can read an interview with Dr Sadlack at \u2018The Wood Word\u2019 (Maryland University\u2019s Offical Student Newspaper).<\/p>\n Dr Erin Sadlack Writes Book on Mary Tudor Brandon<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n More information:<\/b><\/u><\/p>\n Palgrave Macmillan UK<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Amazon.co.uk<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n Palgrave Macmillan USA<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Amazon.com<\/b> Dr Sadlack e-mailed me to say that her book, \u2018The French Queen\u2019s Letters: Mary Tudor and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe\u2019 is now on sale. Originally due to be published on 13th May in the UK, you can … Continue reading