The French Queen's Letters: Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe

by Erin A. Sadlack

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230620302
• ISBN13: 9780230620308
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"