| Description |
xxxiii, 326 p. : ill. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-310) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: It's good to be queen / Robert Bucholz & Carole Levin -- "Greater by marriage" : the matrimonial career of the Empress Matilda / Charles Beem -- Widow princess or neglected queen? Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII, and English public opinion, 1533-1536 / Timothy G. Elston -- "Most godly heart fraight with al mercie" : queens' mercy during the reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I / Sarah Duncan -- Princess Elizabeth travels across her kingdom : in life, in text, and on stage / Carole Levin -- Marriage a la mode, 1559 : Elisabeth de Valois, Elizabeth I, and the changing practice of dynastic marriage / John Watkins -- Queen Solomon : an international Elizabeth I in 1569 / Linda S. Shenk -- The virgin and the widow : the political finesse of Elizabeth I and Catherine de' Medici / Elaine Kruse -- Crafting queens : early modern readings of Esther / Michele Osherow -- "Shine like an angel with thy starry crown" : Queen Elizabeth the angelic / Anna Riehl -- Shakespeare's Queen Cleopatra : an act of translation / Richardine Woodall -- "She is the man, and raignes" : popular representations of Henrietta Maria during the English civil wars / Michelle A. White -- Sex and the single queen : the erotic lives of Elizabeth Tudor in seventeenth-century England / Marjorie Swann -- The "stomach of a queen," or size matters : gender, body image, and the historical reputation of Queen Anne / Robert Bucholz -- Two poems / Amber Harris Leichner. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Queens -- Great Britain -- History.
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Power (Social sciences) -- Great Britain -- History.
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Great Britain -- Politics and government.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Levin, Carole, 1948-
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Bucholz, R. O., 1958-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Queens and power in medieval and early modern England |
| ISBN |
9780803229686 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0803229682 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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