The Sixteenth Century in 100 Women
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The Sixteenth Century in 100 Women

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The Sixteenth Century in 100 Women

About this book

"Mini-biographies of women from every walk of life and every corner of the globe . . . an informative, refreshing, and unique approach to the 16th century." ā€” Adventures of a Tudor Nerd
This retelling of the sixteenth century introduces the reader to a gallery of amazing women from queens to commoners, who navigated the patriarchal world in memorable and life-changing ways all around the world. Amy Licence has scoured the records from Europe and beyond to compile this testament to female lives and achievements, telling the stories of mistresses and martyrs, witches and muses, pirates and jesters, doctors and astronomers, escapees and murderesses, colonists and saints.
Read about the wife of astrologer John Dee, the women who inspired Michelangelo, the jester who saved the life of Henry IV of France, the beloved mistress of the Sultan Suleiman the Great, the wife of Ivan the Terrible, whose murder unleashed terror, set against the everyday lives of those women who did not make the history books.
Introducing a number of new faces, including tales of women from Morocco, Nigeria, Japan, Chile, India and Turkey, this book will delight those who are looking to broaden their knowledge on the sixteenth century and celebrate the lost women of the past.

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Information

Publisher
Pen & Sword History
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781399083836
Topic
History
Subtopic
Early Modern History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. Anne of Brittany, Queen of France, 7 January 1499, Castle of Nantes, Brittany
  7. 2. Caterina Sforza, 12 January 1500, Rocca de Ravaldino, Forli, Italy
  8. 3. Unnamed Prostitute, 31 October 1501, Vatican City, Rome, Italy
  9. 4. Catherine of Aragon, 14 November 1501, St Paulā€™s Cathedral, London, England 10
  10. 5. Margaret Drummond, 1501, Drummond Castle, Perthshire, Scotland
  11. 6. Elizabeth of York, Queen of England, 11 February 1503, Tower of London, England
  12. 7. Lisa del Giocondo, aka Lisa Gherardini, October 1503, Florence, Italy
  13. 8. Isabella, Queen of Castile, 26 November 1504, Valladolid, Spain
  14. 9. Joanna, Queen of Naples, 23 June 1505, Royal Palace, Valencia, Spain
  15. 10. Queen Idia, 1505, Benin City, Nigeria, Africa
  16. 11. Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond, 29 June 1509, The Deanery, Westminster Abbey, London, England
  17. 12. Women of London, 23 January 1513, London, England
  18. 13. Elisabeth van Culemborg, Countess of Hochstrate, June 1513, Hof van Savoy, Mechelen, Netherlands
  19. 14. Margaret Tudor, 9 September 1513, Linlithgow Palace, West Lothian, Scotland
  20. 15. The Money Lenderā€™s Wife, 1514, Antwerp, Netherlands
  21. 16. Claude, Queen of France, 10 May 1517, Paris, France
  22. 17. Juana, Queen of Castile and Aragon, 4 November 1517, Royal Convent, Palace of Tordesillas, Castile, Spain 48
  23. 18. Frau Troffea, July 1518, City Streets, Strasbourg, Alsace, Holy Roman Empire
  24. 19. La Malinche, 1519, Potonchan, Tabasco, Mexico, New World
  25. 20. Elizabeth ā€˜Bessieā€™ Blount, June 1519, Jericho Priory, Blackmore, Essex, England
  26. 21. Roxelana, aka Hurrem Sultan, September 1520, The Seraglio, Topkapi Palace, Constantinople (modern Istanbul), Turkey
  27. 22. ā€˜Kindnessā€™ (Mary Boleyn), 4 March 1522, York Place, London, England
  28. 23. Louise of Savoy, December 1525, Basilica of St Justus, St-Just sur Lyon, Lyon, France
  29. 24. Katharina von Bora, 1526, The Black Cloister, Wittenberg, Germany
  30. 25. Maid of Honour, 1526, Eltham Palace, England
  31. 26. Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling, 1527, London, England
  32. 27. Properzia de Rossi, 24 February 1530, Bologna, Italy
  33. 28. Anne Boleyn, 31 May 1533, Streets of London, England
  34. 29. Elizabeth Barton, 20 April 1534, Tyburn Hill, London, England
  35. 30. Margaret Roper, July 1535, Tower of London, England
  36. 31. Maria de Salinas, Lady Willoughby, 1 January 1536, Kimbolton Castle, Cambridgeshire, England
  37. 32. Women of the Devonshire Manuscript, 1530s, the English court, London, England
  38. 33. Margaret Cheney, 25 May 1537, Smithfield, London, England
  39. 34. Bona Sforza, Queen of Poland, 1537, Lviv High Castle, Lviv, Poland
  40. 35. Queen Jane Seymour, 12 October 1537, Hampton Court, Surrey, England
  41. 36. Cecily Bodenham, 25 March 1539, Wilton Abbey, Wiltshire, England
  42. 37. Anne of Cleves, 1 January 1540, Rochester Castle, Kent, England
  43. 38. Honor Grenville, Lady Lisle, May 1540, Calais, English territory in France
  44. 39. Sayyida al Hurra, 1540, TĆ©touaen, Morocco, North Africa
  45. 40. Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, 27 May 1541, Tower of London, England
  46. 41. Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford, 13 February 1542, Tower Green, Tower of London, England
  47. 42. Lady Nata, or Otomo-Nata ā€˜Jezebelā€™, 1545, Bungo Province, Kyushu, Japan
  48. 43. Mildred Cooke, December 1545, Gidea Hall, Havering-atte-Bower, Essex, England
  49. 44. Venus, 1545, Florence, Italy
  50. 45. Anne Askew, 16 July 1546, Smithfield, London
  51. 46. Ellen Sadler, 1546, London, England
  52. 47. Levina Teerlinc, 1546, London, England
  53. 48. Elizabeth ā€˜Bessā€™ Holland, 14 December 1546, Kenninghall Place, Norfolk, England
  54. 49. Catherine deā€™ Medici, 31 March 1547, Paris, France
  55. 50. The Four Marys, 7 August 1548, Dumbarton, Scotland
  56. 51. Katherine ā€˜Katā€™ Ashley, January 1549, Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, England
  57. 52. Beatriz de Luna, aka Gracia Mendes Nasi, 1549, Ferrara, Northern Italy
  58. 53. Alice Arden, 14 February 1551, Canterbury, Kent, England
  59. 54. Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset, June 1552, Tower of London, England
  60. 55. Jane Grey, 10 July 1553, Tower of London, England
  61. 56. Mary I, 27 September 1553, Streets of London, England
  62. 57. Louise LabƩ, 13 March 1555, Lyon, France
  63. 58. Susan Clarencieux, July 1555, Hampton Court, Surrey, England
  64. 59. Sofonisba Anguissola, 1555, Cremona, Lombardy, Italy
  65. 60. Florence Wadham, 1556, St Decumanā€™s Church, Watchet, Somerset, England
  66. 61. Marian Martyrs, 10 November 1558, Wincheap, Canterbury, Kent, England
  67. 62. Elizabeth Tudor, 17 November 1558, Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, England
  68. 63. Anastasia Romanova, 7 August 1560, Kolomenskoye, near Moscow, Russia
  69. 64. Amye Robsart, 8 September 1560, Cumnor Place, Oxfordshire, England
  70. 65. Isabella Cortese, 1561, Venice, Italy
  71. 66. Aura Soltana, 13 July 1561, London, England
  72. 67. Isabelle de Limeuil,1562, Paris, France
  73. 68. Cecilia of Sweden, 8 September 1565, Dover, England
  74. 69. Weyn Ockers, 23 August 1566, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
  75. 70. Elizabeth Talbot ā€˜Bessā€™ of Hardwick, 2 February 1569, Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire, England
  76. 71. Unknown Woman, 8 February 1570, Concepcion City, Chile
  77. 72. Suphankanlaya, 1571, Pegu, Burma
  78. 73. Marguerite of Valois, 23ā€“24 August 1572, Paris, France
  79. 74. Sophie Brahe, 11 November 1572, Herrevad Abbey, Scania, Denmark (Modern Sweden)
  80. 75. Margaret Brayne, 1576, The Theatre, Holywell Street, Shoreditch, London, England
  81. 76. Lettice Knollys, 21 September 1578, Wanstead Hall, Essex, England
  82. 77. St Teresa of Avila, 1579, Convent of St Joseph, Toledo, Central Spain
  83. 78. Jury of Matrons, 3 July 1581, Rochester, Kent, England
  84. 79. Ursula Kemp, February/March 1582, St Osyth, Essex, England
  85. 80. Anne Hathaway, November 1582, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
  86. 81. Penelope Rich, 1583, the Elizabethan court, London, England
  87. 82. Mary Fillis, 1583, Smithfield, London, England
  88. 83. Jane Dee, 1584, Cracow, Poland
  89. 84. Mary, Queen of Scots, 8 February 1587, Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire, England
  90. 85. Eleanor Dare, 18 August 1587, Roanoke Colony, Roanoke Island, Dare County, North Carolina, US
  91. 86. Lady Nene, aka Kodai-in, 1588, Osaka Castle, Osaka, Japan
  92. 87. Elena/Eleno de CĆ©spedes, 1588, Toledo, Spain
  93. 88. Tognina Gonsalvus, 1588, Fontainebleau, France
  94. 89. ā€˜Fair Em, the Millerā€™s Daughterā€™, 1590, ā€˜Manchesterā€™ in London, England
  95. 90. Mistress Minx, 1592, Streets of London, England
  96. 91. Elizabeth ā€˜Bessā€™ Throckmorton, May 1592, England
  97. 92. Margaret Winstar, August 1592, Dalkeith Castle, Midlothian, Scotland
  98. 93. Eleanor Bull, 30 May 1593, Deptford Strand, Kent, England
  99. 94. Grace Oā€™Malley, September 1593, Greenwich Palace, Kent, England
  100. 95. Mathurine de Vallois, 27 December 1594, Louvre Palace, Paris, France
  101. 96. Medusa,1597, Rome, Italy
  102. 97. Louise Boursier, 1598, Paris, France
  103. 98. Rani Roopmati, 1599, Madhya Pradesh, India
  104. 99. Elizabeth Bathory, 1600, Cachtice Castle, Slovakia
  105. 100. Mary Frith, 26 August 1600, Middlesex, England
  106. 101. Women of the Sixteenth Century
  107. Notes
  108. Bibliography
  109. Acknowledgements