The Rise of Female Kings in Europe, 1300-1800

by WilliamMonter (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2012

  $5.54

  Sketches Europe's increasing acceptance of autonomous female rulers between the late Middle Ages and the French Revolution. This title surveys the governmental records of Europe's thirty women monarchs - as well as the obscure - describing how each of them achieved sovereign authority, wielded it, and (more often than men) abandoned it.

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  Hardcover
  2012

  $86.44

  Sketches Europe's increasing acceptance of autonomous female rulers between the late Middle Ages and the French Revolution. This title surveys the governmental records of Europe's thirty women monarchs - as well as the obscure - describing how each of them achieved sovereign authority, wielded it, and (more often than men) abandoned it.