The French Queen’s Letters
Author | : E. Sadlack |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 2011-04-11 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780230118560 |
ISBN-13 | : 0230118569 |
Rating | : 4/5 (569 Downloads) |
Download or read book The French Queen’s Letters written by E. Sadlack and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.