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The Sixteenth Century in 100 Women
Amy Licence
- 288 pages
- English
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The Sixteenth Century in 100 Women
Amy Licence
About This Book
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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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Anne of Brittany, Queen of France, 7 January 1499, Castle of Nantes, Brittany
- 2. Caterina Sforza, 12 January 1500, Rocca de Ravaldino, Forli, Italy
- 3. Unnamed Prostitute, 31 October 1501, Vatican City, Rome, Italy
- 4. Catherine of Aragon, 14 November 1501, St Paulâs Cathedral, London, England 10
- 5. Margaret Drummond, 1501, Drummond Castle, Perthshire, Scotland
- 6. Elizabeth of York, Queen of England, 11 February 1503, Tower of London, England
- 7. Lisa del Giocondo, aka Lisa Gherardini, October 1503, Florence, Italy
- 8. Isabella, Queen of Castile, 26 November 1504, Valladolid, Spain
- 9. Joanna, Queen of Naples, 23 June 1505, Royal Palace, Valencia, Spain
- 10. Queen Idia, 1505, Benin City, Nigeria, Africa
- 11. Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond, 29 June 1509, The Deanery, Westminster Abbey, London, England
- 12. Women of London, 23 January 1513, London, England
- 13. Elisabeth van Culemborg, Countess of Hochstrate, June 1513, Hof van Savoy, Mechelen, Netherlands
- 14. Margaret Tudor, 9 September 1513, Linlithgow Palace, West Lothian, Scotland
- 15. The Money Lenderâs Wife, 1514, Antwerp, Netherlands
- 16. Claude, Queen of France, 10 May 1517, Paris, France
- 17. Juana, Queen of Castile and Aragon, 4 November 1517, Royal Convent, Palace of Tordesillas, Castile, Spain 48
- 18. Frau Troffea, July 1518, City Streets, Strasbourg, Alsace, Holy Roman Empire
- 19. La Malinche, 1519, Potonchan, Tabasco, Mexico, New World
- 20. Elizabeth âBessieâ Blount, June 1519, Jericho Priory, Blackmore, Essex, England
- 21. Roxelana, aka Hurrem Sultan, September 1520, The Seraglio, Topkapi Palace, Constantinople (modern Istanbul), Turkey
- 22. âKindnessâ (Mary Boleyn), 4 March 1522, York Place, London, England
- 23. Louise of Savoy, December 1525, Basilica of St Justus, St-Just sur Lyon, Lyon, France
- 24. Katharina von Bora, 1526, The Black Cloister, Wittenberg, Germany
- 25. Maid of Honour, 1526, Eltham Palace, England
- 26. Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling, 1527, London, England
- 27. Properzia de Rossi, 24 February 1530, Bologna, Italy
- 28. Anne Boleyn, 31 May 1533, Streets of London, England
- 29. Elizabeth Barton, 20 April 1534, Tyburn Hill, London, England
- 30. Margaret Roper, July 1535, Tower of London, England
- 31. Maria de Salinas, Lady Willoughby, 1 January 1536, Kimbolton Castle, Cambridgeshire, England
- 32. Women of the Devonshire Manuscript, 1530s, the English court, London, England
- 33. Margaret Cheney, 25 May 1537, Smithfield, London, England
- 34. Bona Sforza, Queen of Poland, 1537, Lviv High Castle, Lviv, Poland
- 35. Queen Jane Seymour, 12 October 1537, Hampton Court, Surrey, England
- 36. Cecily Bodenham, 25 March 1539, Wilton Abbey, Wiltshire, England
- 37. Anne of Cleves, 1 January 1540, Rochester Castle, Kent, England
- 38. Honor Grenville, Lady Lisle, May 1540, Calais, English territory in France
- 39. Sayyida al Hurra, 1540, TĂ©touaen, Morocco, North Africa
- 40. Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, 27 May 1541, Tower of London, England
- 41. Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford, 13 February 1542, Tower Green, Tower of London, England
- 42. Lady Nata, or Otomo-Nata âJezebelâ, 1545, Bungo Province, Kyushu, Japan
- 43. Mildred Cooke, December 1545, Gidea Hall, Havering-atte-Bower, Essex, England
- 44. Venus, 1545, Florence, Italy
- 45. Anne Askew, 16 July 1546, Smithfield, London
- 46. Ellen Sadler, 1546, London, England
- 47. Levina Teerlinc, 1546, London, England
- 48. Elizabeth âBessâ Holland, 14 December 1546, Kenninghall Place, Norfolk, England
- 49. Catherine deâ Medici, 31 March 1547, Paris, France
- 50. The Four Marys, 7 August 1548, Dumbarton, Scotland
- 51. Katherine âKatâ Ashley, January 1549, Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, England
- 52. Beatriz de Luna, aka Gracia Mendes Nasi, 1549, Ferrara, Northern Italy
- 53. Alice Arden, 14 February 1551, Canterbury, Kent, England
- 54. Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset, June 1552, Tower of London, England
- 55. Jane Grey, 10 July 1553, Tower of London, England
- 56. Mary I, 27 September 1553, Streets of London, England
- 57. Louise Labé, 13 March 1555, Lyon, France
- 58. Susan Clarencieux, July 1555, Hampton Court, Surrey, England
- 59. Sofonisba Anguissola, 1555, Cremona, Lombardy, Italy
- 60. Florence Wadham, 1556, St Decumanâs Church, Watchet, Somerset, England
- 61. Marian Martyrs, 10 November 1558, Wincheap, Canterbury, Kent, England
- 62. Elizabeth Tudor, 17 November 1558, Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, England
- 63. Anastasia Romanova, 7 August 1560, Kolomenskoye, near Moscow, Russia
- 64. Amye Robsart, 8 September 1560, Cumnor Place, Oxfordshire, England
- 65. Isabella Cortese, 1561, Venice, Italy
- 66. Aura Soltana, 13 July 1561, London, England
- 67. Isabelle de Limeuil,1562, Paris, France
- 68. Cecilia of Sweden, 8 September 1565, Dover, England
- 69. Weyn Ockers, 23 August 1566, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
- 70. Elizabeth Talbot âBessâ of Hardwick, 2 February 1569, Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire, England
- 71. Unknown Woman, 8 February 1570, Concepcion City, Chile
- 72. Suphankanlaya, 1571, Pegu, Burma
- 73. Marguerite of Valois, 23â24 August 1572, Paris, France
- 74. Sophie Brahe, 11 November 1572, Herrevad Abbey, Scania, Denmark (Modern Sweden)
- 75. Margaret Brayne, 1576, The Theatre, Holywell Street, Shoreditch, London, England
- 76. Lettice Knollys, 21 September 1578, Wanstead Hall, Essex, England
- 77. St Teresa of Avila, 1579, Convent of St Joseph, Toledo, Central Spain
- 78. Jury of Matrons, 3 July 1581, Rochester, Kent, England
- 79. Ursula Kemp, February/March 1582, St Osyth, Essex, England
- 80. Anne Hathaway, November 1582, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
- 81. Penelope Rich, 1583, the Elizabethan court, London, England
- 82. Mary Fillis, 1583, Smithfield, London, England
- 83. Jane Dee, 1584, Cracow, Poland
- 84. Mary, Queen of Scots, 8 February 1587, Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire, England
- 85. Eleanor Dare, 18 August 1587, Roanoke Colony, Roanoke Island, Dare County, North Carolina, US
- 86. Lady Nene, aka Kodai-in, 1588, Osaka Castle, Osaka, Japan
- 87. Elena/Eleno de CĂ©spedes, 1588, Toledo, Spain
- 88. Tognina Gonsalvus, 1588, Fontainebleau, France
- 89. âFair Em, the Millerâs Daughterâ, 1590, âManchesterâ in London, England
- 90. Mistress Minx, 1592, Streets of London, England
- 91. Elizabeth âBessâ Throckmorton, May 1592, England
- 92. Margaret Winstar, August 1592, Dalkeith Castle, Midlothian, Scotland
- 93. Eleanor Bull, 30 May 1593, Deptford Strand, Kent, England
- 94. Grace OâMalley, September 1593, Greenwich Palace, Kent, England
- 95. Mathurine de Vallois, 27 December 1594, Louvre Palace, Paris, France
- 96. Medusa,1597, Rome, Italy
- 97. Louise Boursier, 1598, Paris, France
- 98. Rani Roopmati, 1599, Madhya Pradesh, India
- 99. Elizabeth Bathory, 1600, Cachtice Castle, Slovakia
- 100. Mary Frith, 26 August 1600, Middlesex, England
- 101. Women of the Sixteenth Century
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements