The Rise of Female Kings in Europe, 1300-1800

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, a [...]
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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.