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Quilligan, Maureen, 1944-
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Mary I, Queen of England, 1516-1558.
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587.
Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589.
Queens -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
Women heads of state -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
Renaissance.
Europe -- Politics and government -- 1492-1648.
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Quilligan, Maureen, 1944-
Mary I, Queen of England, 1516-1558.
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587.
Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589.
Queens -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
Women heads of state -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
Renaissance.
Europe -- Politics and government -- 1492-1648.
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When women ruled the world : making the Renaissance in Europe / Maureen Quilligan.
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Quilligan, Maureen, 1944-
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2021.
Call #:
940
.2
Q68w
Subjects
Mary I, Queen of England, 1516-1558.
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587.
Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589.
Queens -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
Women heads of state -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
Renaissance.
Europe -- Politics and government -- 1492-1648.
ISBN:
9781631497964 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Making the Renaissance in Europe
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xvii, 301 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-288) and index.
Summary:
"The sixteenth century in Europe was a time of chronic destabilization in which institutions of traditional authority were challenged and religious wars seemed unending. Yet it also witnessed the remarkable flowering of a pacifist culture, cultivated by a cohort of extraordinary women rulers -- most notably Mary Tudor; Elizabeth I; Mary, Queen of Scots; and Catherine de' Medici --whose lives were intertwined not only by blood and marriage, but by a shared recognition that their premier places in the world of a few dozen European monarchs required them to bond together, as women, against the forces seeking to destroy them, if not the foundations of monarchy itself. Recasting the complex relationships among these four queens, Maureen Quilligan, a leading scholar of Renaissance, rewrites centuries of historical analysis that sought to depict their governments as riven by personal jealousies and petty revenges. Instead, the book shows how these regents carefully engendered a culture of mutual respect, focusing on the gift-giving by which they aimed to ensure female ties of friendship and alliance. As Quilligan demonstrates, gifts were not mere signals of affection, but inalienable posessions, often handed down through generations, that served as agents in the creation of a steep social hierarchy that allowed women to assume political authority beyond the confines of their gender. "With a brilliant panache" (Amanda Foreman), Quilligan reveals how eleven-year-old Elizabeth I's gift of a handmade book to her stepmother, Katherine Parr, helped facilitate peace within the tumultuous Tudor dynasty, and how Catherine de' Medici's gift of the Valois tapestries to her granddaughter, the soon-to-be Grand Duchess of Tuscany, both solidified and enhanced the Medici family's prestige. Quilligan introduces a key book of poetry given to Elizabeth I by Catherine de'Medici as a warning against a concerted attack launched by her closest counselor, William Cecil, in the divine right of kings -- an attack that ultimately resulted in the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. Beyond gifts, the book delves into the connections the regents created among themselves, connections that historians have long considered beneath notice. "Line fellow soldiers in a sorolal troop," Quilligan writes, these women protected and aided each other. Aware of the leveling patriarchal power of the Reformation, they consolidated forces, governing as "sisters" within a royal family that exercised power by virtue of inherited right -- the very right that Protestantism rejected as a basis for rule. Vibrantly chronicling the artistic creativity and political ingenuity that flourished in the pockets of peace created by these four queens, Quilligan's lavishly illustrated work offers a new perspective on the glorious sixteenth centrury and, crucially, the women who helped create it."
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