Young queens : three Renaissance women and the price of power
Chang, Leah Redmond, 1973-2023
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Click and Collect for Young queens : three Renaissance women and the price of powerSixteenth-century Europe- Renaissance masters paint the ceilings of Florentine churches, kings battle for control of the Continent, and the Reformation forever changes the religious organisation of society. Amidst it all, three young women come of age and into power in an era of empires and revolutions. Catherine de' Medici's story begins in a convent stormed by soldiers intent on seizing the key to power in Florence Catherine herself, a girl barely 11 years old. It ends with her as the controversial queen mother of France, a woman both revered and reviled. Mary, Queen of Scots' story begins in Scotland and ends in England. A queen turned traitor, from the confines of her English prison she longs for the idyll of her childhood in France. Elisabeth de Valois' story begins in France, where she is born the beloved daughter of a king. It ends tragically in Spain as a cherished queen consort and mother one who must make the ultimate sacrifice for her kingdom. Catherine, Mary and Elisabeth lived at the French court together for many years before scattering to different kingdoms. These years bound them to one another through blood and marriage, alliance and friendship, love and filial piety; bonds that were tested when the women were forced to part and take on new roles. To rule, they would learn, was to wage a constant war against the deeply entrenched misogyny of their time. A crown could exalt a young woman. Equally, it could destroy her. Drawing on new archival research, Young Queens masterfully weaves the personal stories of these three queens into one, revealing their hopes, dreams, desires and regrets in a time when even the most powerful women lived at the mercy of the state.
Young queens : three Renaissance women and the price of power / Leah Redmond Chang.
Chang, Leah Redmond, 1973-, author
London : Bloomsbury Circus, 2023.©2023
xx, 491 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), genealogical table ; 24 cm
Simultaneously published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-471) and index.
978152661344897815266134489781526613448
940.22
D107.3
English
Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587Elizabeth, of France, Queen, consort of Philip II, King of Spain, 1545-1568Queens -- Europe -- BiographyEurope -- Kings and rulers -- BiographyFrance -- History -- House of Valois, 1328-1589Scotland -- History -- 1057-1603Spain -- History -- House of Austria, 1516-1700Europe -- Politics and government -- 1492-1648Biographies
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