The rise of female kings in Europe, 1300-1800
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Author
Publication
2012 - Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut
Language
English
Word Count
67,750 words, Guess
Page Count
271 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveriseoffemaleking0000mont
- ISBN-139780300173277
- ISBN-10030017327X
- Library of Congress Control Number2011014263
- OCLC Control Number711045584
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780300173277
- Open LibraryOL24839565M
Classifications
- DDC940.09/9
- LCCD217 .M57 2012
- LCCD217.M57 2012
Description
Overview: In this lively and pathbreaking book, William Monter sketches Europe's increasing acceptance of autonomous female rulers between the late Middle Ages and the French Revolution. Monter surveys the governmental records of Europe's thirty women monarchs-the famous (Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great) as well as the obscure (Charlotte of Cyprus, Isabel Clara Eugenia of the Netherlands)-describing how each of them achieved sovereign authority, wielded it, and (more often than men) abandoned it. Monter argues that Europe's female kings, who ruled by divine right, experienced no significant political opposition despite their gender.
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