| Tudor Women: Queens & Commoners Third Edition, Edition Contributor(s): Plowden, Alison (Author) |
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ISBN: 0750928808 ISBN-13: 9780750928809 Publisher: History Press OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2002 Annotation: The Tudor era belongs to its women. No other period of English history has produced so many notable and interesting women, and in no other period have women so powerfully influenced the course of political events. Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I and, at moments of high drama, Mary Queen of Scots dominated the political scene for more than half a century, while in the previous 50 years Henry VIII's marital escapades brought six more women to the center of attention. In this study, the women of the royal family are the central characters; the royal women set the style and between them they provide a dazzling variety of personalities, as well as illustrating almost every aspect of life as it affected women in Tudor England. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - History | Europe - Renaissance - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 942.05 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.02" W x 7.78" (0.46 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume gives an account of the women both behind the scenes and at the forefront of 16th-century English history, including Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, and Henry VIII's six wives. The women of the royal family are the central characters; what they ate, how they dressed, the books they read, and the letters they wrote are all addressed. Yet even the greatest of these women suffered the universal legal and physiological disabilities of womanhood, and while some triumphed over them, others went under. |