Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty

Book Overview

Royal women did much more to wield power besides marrying the king and producing the heir. Subverting the dichotomies of public/private and formal/informal that gender public authority as male and informal authority as female, this book examines royal women as agents of influence. With an expansive chronological and geographic scope-from ancient to early modern and covering Egypt, Great Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and Asia Minor-these essays trace...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030093476
• ISBN13: 9783030093471
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"