Foreign Correspondence with Marie de Lorraine, Queen of Scotland, from the Originals in the Balcarres Papers
Author: Queen Mary (consort of James V, King of Scotland)
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 338
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Author: Queen Mary (consort of James V, King of Scotland)
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 338
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: MARGUERITE. WOOD
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Published: 2018
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ISBN-13: 9781033177549
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marguerite Wood
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-10-13
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780266256489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Foreign Correspondence With Marie De Lorraine, Queen of Scotland: From the Originals in the Balcarres Papers, 1537-1548 The foreign correspondence of Marie de Lorraine, Queen of Scotland from 1538 till 1560, contained in the Balcarres Papers at the Advocates' Library and in a collection at the Register House, covers a period of about twenty years, from the time of her marriage till shortly before her death. The bulk of the correspondence is due to the family and dependants of the House of Guise. This does not mean that the letters are chiefly domestic for, after the acces sion of Henri IL, the Duke of Aumale and his brother the Cardinal, being among the King's most intimate advisers, naturally have much to say on matters of State. The domestic letters are only those of her mother the Duchess of Guise, her sisters, and her son, with occasional communi cations, chiefly formal, from her uncles and other relations by marriage. There are fewer letters on affairs of the kingdoms before 1542, as until that date the-queen had no share in the government, although in one letter from the Duchess of Guise there is a hint of increasing influence with the King. Until 1542 we have mainly family news, news of friends, of the administration of the Queen's estates in France, of the movements of the French court, the wars and the part' her family play in them but there is also some indication of the Queen's interest in the development of her new country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mary of Lorraine (queen consort of James V. of Scotland)
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: S. Jansen
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2002-10-17
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 0230602118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Monstrous Regiment of Women , Sharon Jansen explores the case for and against female rule by examining the arguments made by theorists from Sir John Fortescue (1461) through Bishop Bossuet (1680) interweaving their arguments with references to the most well-known early modern queens. The 'story' of early modern European political history looks very different if, instead of focusing on kings and their sons, we see successive generations of powerful women and the shifting political alliances of the period from a very different, and revealing, perspective.
Author: Karen Nelson
Publisher: University of Delaware
Published: 2013-07-11
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1611494451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume considers women's roles in the conflicts and negotiations of the early modern world. Essays explore the ways that gender shapes women's agency in times of war, religious strife, and economic change. How were conflict and concord gendered in histories, literature, music, and political, legal, didactic, and religious treatises? Four interdisciplinary plenary topics ground this exploration: Negotiations, Economies, Faiths & Spiritualities, and Pedagogies. Scholars focus upon many regions of the early modern world--the Atlantic world, the Mediterranean world, Granada, Indonesia, the Low Countries, England, and Italy--inflected by such religions as Islam, Catholicism, and Reformed Protestantism, as they came into contact with indigenous spiritualities and with one another. Essays and workshop summaries analyze how gender and class are implicated in economic change and assess the ways gender and religion map onto voyages of trade, exploration, or imperialism. They investigate how women, as individuals and as members of political or family networks, were instrumental in transmitting, promoting, supporting, or thwarting different religions during times of religious crises. This volume also offers methods for teaching and researching these topics. It will be invaluable to scholars of medieval and early modern women's studies, especially those working in history, literature, languages, musicology, and religious studies.
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 342
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Leah Redmond Chang
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2023-08-15
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 0374720932
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFinalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Biography) One of the New Yorker’s Best Books of 2023 One of BookRiot's Best Biographies of 2023 Longlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize in Nonfiction The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots—three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. 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.
Author: University of St. Andrews
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 470
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