The Rise of Female Kings in Europe 1300 1800

Release on 2012-01-24 | by William Monter

In 1730 her spouse became the first king of Sweden to take an official mistress. Nevertheless, his wife continued to cooperate with him politically until her death in 1741. The Pragmatic Habsburg Succession While the French Bourbons ...

The Rise of Female Kings in Europe 1300 1800

Author: William Monter
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300173277
Category: History
Page: 304
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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.

Language: en
Pages: 508

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