The French Queen’s Letters
Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Nonfiction, History, France, Modern
| Author: | E. Sadlack | ISBN: | 9780230118560 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US | Publication: | April 11, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | E. Sadlack |
| ISBN: | 9780230118560 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US |
| Publication: | April 11, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
