Unexpected heirs in early modern Europe : potential kings and queens /: potential kings and queens. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Valerie Schutte.
• Editors: Schutte, Valerie
• Contents: 1. IntroductionI. Securing a Dynasty2. A Bastard and a Changeling?: England's Edward of Westminster and Delayed Childbirth3. Margaret Tudor, Countess of Richmond and Elizabeth York: Dynastic Competitors or Allies?4. Perceptions of Princesses: Pre-accession Book Dedications to Mary and Elizabeth Tudor5. Fit for a King?: The Gendered Emotional Performances of Catherine de Medici as Dauphine of France, 1536-15476. Never the Queen: Anne Stuart's Formative YearsII. Second Sons7. Another Spare to the French Crown: Henry III of France's Self-Representation, Reputation and Royal Authority8. Losing an Unexpected Throne: Deposing Second Sons of the Stuart Dynasty9. Expected, then Passed Over: Second Sons in the French Monarchy of the Seventeenth CenturyIII. Unexpected Survival10. A Queen in Constant Motion: Queen Christina of Sweden and the Unexpected Mobility of Sovereignty11. The Unexpected Virgin: The Perpetual Succession Crisis of Elizabeth I.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 321/.6; History; Kings and rulers -- Succession; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General; Kings and rulers -- Succession; Social Science -- Gender Studies; History -- Europe -- Great Britain; History -- Europe -- General; Gender studies, gender groups; British & Irish history; European history; Sociology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319552941; 3319552945
• Related ISBNs: 9783319552934; 3319552937
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed October 26, 2017).
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