The French Queen’s Letters [electronic resource] : Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe /
Sadlack, E.author.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
A queenly education -- Becoming the queen -- Marrying where "my mynd is" -- Always the French queen : identity politics -- Appendix : Mary's letters.
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.
Mary, Queen, consort of Louis XII, King of France, 1496-1533.
Mary, Queen, consort of Louis XII, King of France, 1496-1533
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547
France—History.
History, Modern.
Great Britain—History.
Social history.
Civilization—History.
Literature.
History of France.
Modern History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Social History.
Cultural History.
Literature, general.