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9/100Critics
53/100Scholars
Author:
Maureen Quilligan
Publisher:
Liveright
Date:
October 12, 2021
Sixteenth-century Europe was a time of destabilization of age-old norms and the waging of religious warsâyet it also witnessed the flowering of a pacific culture cultivated by a cohort of women rulers who sat on Europe's thrones, most notably Mary Tudor; Elizabeth I; Mary, Queen of Scots; and Catherine de' Medici. Recasting the stories and political relationships among these four women rulers, Maureen Quilligan rewrites scholarship that sought to depict intense personal hatreds among them.
What The Reviewers Say
An epic saga.
Intriguing.
At times, it is difficult to separate the rulers’ political exigency from their familial loyalty, but the book is a useful addition to the literature on European royalty.
