The French Queen''s Letters : Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe
by
E. Sadlack
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Queenship and Power
ISBN-10
0230620302
ISBN-13
9780230620308
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 29th, 2011
Print length
266 Pages
Weight
542 grams
Dimensions
23.60 x 16.30 x 2.10 cms
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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.
The life of Mary Tudor the French queen, younger sister of Henry VIII, has been chiefly defined by the scandal of her secret marriage to Charles Brandon after the death of her husband, Louis XII of France. Such limited focus has obscured Mary''s role as a political figure, one whom poets celebrated for bringing peace between England and France. In this biography, Erin Sadlack contends that Mary was neither a weeping hysteric nor a love-struck romantic, but 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. By reading Mary''s life and letters within the context of early modern political culture, this book broadens our understanding of the exercise of queenship in the sixteenth century.
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