Young queens: three Renaissance women and the price of power

"Orphaned from infancy, Catherine de' Medici endured a tumultuous childhood. Married to the French king, she was widowed by forty, only to become the power behind the French throne during a period of intense civil strife. In 1546, Catherine gave birth to a daughter, Elisabeth de Valois, wh...

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Main Author: Chang, Leah Redmond 1973- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
Edition:First American edition
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"Orphaned from infancy, Catherine de' Medici endured a tumultuous childhood. Married to the French king, she was widowed by forty, only to become the power behind the French throne during a period of intense civil strife. In 1546, Catherine gave birth to a daughter, Elisabeth de Valois, who would become Queen of Spain. Two years later, Catherine welcomed to her nursery the beguiling young Mary Queen of Scots, who would later become her daughter-in-law. Together, Catherine, Elisabeth, and Mary lived through the sea changes that transformed sixteenth-century Europe, a time of expanding empires, religious discord, and populist revolt, as concepts of nationhood began to emerge and ideas of sovereignty inched closer to absolutism. They would learn that to rule as a queen was to wage a constant war against the deeply entrenched misogyny of their time. Following the intertwined stories of the three women from girlhood through young adulthood, Leah Redmond Chang's Young Queens paints a picture of a world in which a woman could wield power at the highest level yet remain at the mercy of the state, her body serving as the currency of empire and dynasty, sacrificed to the will of husband, family, kingdom" --
Item Description:Originally published in 2023 by Bloomsbury, Great Britain
Physical Description:xx, 491 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen, Porträts, 2 genealogische Tafeln 24 cm
ISBN:9780374294489

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