A fresh biography of Mary Tudor which challenges conventional views of her as a weeping hysteric and love-struck romantic, providing instead the portrait of a queen who drew on two sources of authority to increase the power of her position: epistolary conventions and the rhetoric of chivalry that imbued the French and English courts.

Autorentext
ERIN SADLACK Assistant Professor of English at Marywood University, USA.

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A Queenly Education Becoming the Queen Marrying Where 'my mynd is' Always the French Queen: Identity Politics