Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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Title Information: |
Mary Tudor Brandon and the politics of marriage in sixteenth-century Europe |
Author: |
SadlackErin A., |
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
Place of Publication: |
New York |
Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
Year of Publication: |
2011 |
Description: |
1 online resource. |
Series: |
Queenship and power |
Subject: |
Marriage - Political aspects - Europe - 16th century. - |
Subject: |
Chivalry - History - Europe - 16th century. - |
Subject: |
Queens - France - |
Subject: |
Henry - VIII - |
Subject: |
Mary - Queen, consort of Louis XII, King of France - |
Subject: |
Mary - Queen, consort of Louis XII, King of France - |
Subject: |
History. - |
Subject: |
HISTORY. - |
Subject: |
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Historical. - |
Personal Subject: |
Mary - |
Personal Subject: |
Mary - |
Personal Subject: |
Henry - Relations with French. - |
Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230118560An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
Notes: |
Description based on print version record. |
Summary: |
The life of Mary Tudor the French queen, younger sister of Henry VIII, has been chiefly defined by the scandal of her secret marriage to Charles Brandon after the death of her husband, Louis XII of France. Such limited focus has obscured Mary's role as a political figure, one whom poets celebrated for bringing peace between England and France. In this biography, Erin A. Sadlack contends that Mary was neither a weeping hysteric nor a love-struck romantic, but a queen who drew on two sources of authority to increase the power of her position: epistolary conventions and the rhetoric of chivalry t. |
ISBN: |
9780230118560electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
0230118569electronic bk. |
Content Note: |
A Queenly Education * Becoming the Queen * Marrying Where "my mynd is" * Always the French Queen: Identity Politics. A queenly education Becoming the queen Marrying where "my mynd is" Always the French queen : identity politics Appendix: Mary's letters. |