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The French Queen's Letters : Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe /

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 im...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sadlack, Erin A. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Series:Queenship and power.
Subjects:
History.
Cultural History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
History of France.
Literature, general.
Modern History.
Social History.
Civilization > History.
History, Modern.
Literature.
Social history.
France > History.
Great Britain > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XIII, 266 pages 3 illustrations)
ISBN:9780230118560
DOI:10.1057/9780230118560