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About this book
In The Monstrous Regiment of Women, Sharon Jansen explores the case for and against female rule by examining the arguments made by theorists from Sir John Fortescue (1461) through Bishop Bossuet (1680) interweaving their arguments with references to the most well-known early modern queens. The 'story' of early modern European political history looks very different if, instead of focusing on kings and their sons, we see successive generations of powerful women and the shifting political alliances of the period from a very different, and revealing, perspective.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Names
- Introduction: Redrawing the Lines of Power
- Chapter One: Fifteenth-Century Foremothers
- Chapter Two: The Daughters of Isabella of Castile: Queens and Regents in Spain and the Habsburg Empire
- Chapter Three: The Daughters of Margaret Beaufort: Queens and Regents in England and Scotland
- Chapter Four: The Daughters of Caterina Sforza: Rulers and Regents in Italy
- Chapter Five: The Daughters of Anne of France: Queens and Regents in France and French Navarre
- Chapter Six: The End of an Era
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index