When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe

by Maureen Quilligan

Book Overview

The sixteenth century in Europe was a time of chronic destabilization in which institutions of traditional authority were challenged and religious wars seemed unending. Yet it also witnessed the remarkable flowering of a pacifist culture, cultivated by a cohort of extraordinary women rulers--most notably, Mary Tudor; Elizabeth I; Mary, Queen of Scots; and Catherine de' Medici--whose lives were intertwined not only by blood and marriage, but by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324092378
• ISBN13: 9781324092377
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.2"