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Description

1. xx, 491 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), genealogical tables; 24 cm

Summary

1. "Orphaned from infancy, Catherine de' Medici endured a tumultuous childhood. Married to the French king, she was widowed by forty, only to become the power behind the French throne during a period of intense civil strife. In 1546, Catherine gave birth to a daughter, Elisabeth de Valois, who would become Queen of Spain. Two years later, Catherine welcomed to her nursery the beguiling young Mary Queen of Scots, who would later become her daughter-in-law. Together, Catherine, Elisabeth, and Mary lived through the sea changes that transformed sixteenth-century Europe, a time of expanding empires, religious discord, and populist revolt, as concepts of nationhood began to emerge and ideas of sovereignty inched closer to absolutism. They would learn that to rule as a queen was to wage a constant war against the deeply entrenched misogyny of their time. Following the intertwined stories of the three women from girlhood through young adulthood, Leah Redmond Chang's Young Queens paints a picture of a world in which a woman could wield power at the highest level yet remain at the mercy of the state, her body serving as the currency of empire and dynasty, sacrificed to the will of husband, family, kingdom" --

Alternative title

1. 3 Renaissance women and the price of power

Subject

1. Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589
2. Elizabeth, of France, Queen, consort of Philip II, King of Spain, 1545-1568
3. Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587
4. 1492-1648
5. Queens > Europe > Biography
6. HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603)
7. Kings and rulers
8. Politics and government
9. Queens
10. Europe > Kings and rulers > Biography
11. Europe > Politics and government > 1492-1648
12. Europe

Genre/Form

1. Biographies.
2. Biographies

Contents

1. Prologue -- The orphan : Italy, 1519-1533 -- The second son : France, 1533-1536 -- Barren : France, 1536-1542 -- Motherhood : France, 1543-1553 -- The price : Scotland and France, 1537-1548 -- Empires : France, 1547-1553 -- Brides : France, 1558-1559 -- Accidents : France, 1559 -- Mary's book : France, 1548-1554 -- Journeys : France and Spain, 1559 -- Letters : France and Spain, 1559-1560 -- King's heart, Queen's Body : Spain, 1560 -- Sons and daughters : France, 1560-1561 -- Home : France, 1560 -- Don Carlos : France and Spain, 1561 -- The test : France and Spain, 1561 -- The return : France, Spain, Scotland, England, 1561 -- Queen of faith : Scotland, France, Spain, 1561-1563 -- Catholic kings : Scotland, 1562-1565 -- Family affairs : France, on the border with Spain, 1565 -- The Queen's two bodies : Scotland and Spain, 1566 -- The birth of princes : Scotland and Spain, 1566-1567 -- The turn : France and Scotland, 1567 -- The prisoner : Lochleven Castle, Scotland, 1567 -- The death of a queen : Scotland, England, France and Spain, 1568 -- Last letters : Spain, France, and England, 1568 -- A daughter's love: Spain and France, 1568 -- Epilogue.

Call number

1. JFE 23-2936

Note

1. Originally published in 2023 by Bloomsbury, Great Britain.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Chang, Leah Redmond, 1973- author.

Title

1. Young queens : three Renaissance women and the price of power / Leah Redmond Chang.

Publisher

1. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.

Copyright date

1. ©2023

Edition

1. First American edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. 1492-1648

LCCN

1. 2023003433

ISBN

1. 9780374294489 hardcover
2. 0374294488 hardcover

Research call number

1. JFE 23-2936