Queenship in Europe, 1660-1815
Subtitle: The Role of the Consort
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 13, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780521814225
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Women's studies; Queens; Gender Studies; Social Science; Sociology; Europe; General; Social Science / Gender Studies; 1648-1789; 1789-1815; History; Women
First sentence: In the history of the states of the Dukes of Savoy (from 1720, the Kings of Sardinia), the middle of the seventeenth century was dominated by the regencies from 1637 to 1684 of Marie-Christine of Bourbon and Marie Jeanne-Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours (after her marriage known as Maria Giovanna Battista).