A fresh biography of Mary Tudor which challenges conventional views of her as a weeping hysteric and love-struck romantic, providing instead the portrait of a queen who drew on two sources of authority to increase the power of her position: epistolary conventions and the rhetoric of chivalry that imbued the French and English courts.
| ISBN: | 9781349382712 |
| Publication date: | 29th March 2011 |
| Author: | E. Sadlack |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 266 pages |
| Series: | Queenship and Power |
| Genres: |
European history History Social and cultural history Biography, Literature and Literary studies |