This is a list of some of the books I have consulted for this subject. There are, of course a huge number of relevant books, but these are all relatively recent and contain a great deal of interesting and important material.
John Adamson, ed., The Princely Courts of Europe (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999)
Helen Castor, She-Wolves. The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth (Faber and Faber, 2011).
_______, Elizabeth I. A Study in Insecurity (Penguin, 2018).
Leonie Frieda, Catherine de Medici (Phoenix, 2005).
__________, The Deadly Sisterhood. A Story of Women, Power and Intrigue in the Italian Renaissance (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2012).
Nancy Goldstone, Rival Queens. Catherine de’ Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016).
Sarah Gristwood, Game of Queens. The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe (Oneworld, 2017).
John Guy, My Heart is my Own. The Life of Mary Queen of Scots (HarperPerennial, 2004).
Giles Tremlett, Catherine of Aragon. Henry’s Spanish Queen (Faber & Faber, 2011).
Giles Tremlett, Isabella of Castile: Europe’s First Great Queen (Bloomsbury, 2017)
Anna Whitelock, Mary Tudor. England's First Queen (Bloomsbury, 2009)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Women and power in an age of mass politics
The Anti-Corn Law League meeting in Exeter Hall, London in 1846. Women were prominent in the meeting. The nineteenth century saw the i...
-
Catherine de' Medici widowed Queen of France workshop of François Clouet Public domain. France’s Salic Law barred females and ... -
For this post I have been particularly indebted to Veronica Buckley's, Christina, Queen of Sweden. The Restless Life of a European E... -
Queen Victoria: the coronation portrait by George Hayter Royal Collection Public domain Victoria's reign is long and complex. ...
No comments:
Post a Comment