Debating Women, Politics, and Power in Early Modern Europe

by Sharon L. Jansen

Book Overview

The sixteenth century was an age of politically powerful women. Queens, acting in their own right, and female regents, acting on behalf of their male relatives, governed much of Western Europe. Yet even as women ruled - and ruled effectively - their right to do so was hotly contested. Men s voices have long dominated this debate, but the recovery of texts by women now allows their voices, long silenced, to be heard once again. Debating Women, Politics,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349373060
• ISBN13: 9781349373062
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"