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Young queens : three Renaissance women and the price of power / Leah Redmond Chang.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First American editionDescription: xx, 491 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), genealogical tables ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780374294489
  • 0374294488
Other title:
  • 3 Renaissance women and the price of power
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Contents:
Prologue -- The orphan : Italy, 1519-1533 -- The second son : France, 1533-1536 -- Barren : France, 1536-1542 -- Motherhood : France, 1543-1553 -- The price : Scotland and France, 1537-1548 -- Empires : France, 1547-1553 -- Brides : France, 1558-1559 -- Accidents : France, 1559 -- Mary's book : France, 1548-1554 -- Journeys : France and Spain, 1559 -- Letters : France and Spain, 1559-1560 -- King's heart, Queen's Body : Spain, 1560 -- Sons and daughters : France, 1560-1561 -- Home : France, 1560 -- Don Carlos : France and Spain, 1561 -- The test : France and Spain, 1561 -- The return : France, Spain, Scotland, England, 1561 -- Queen of faith : Scotland, France, Spain, 1561-1563 -- Catholic kings : Scotland, 1562-1565 -- Family affairs : France, on the border with Spain, 1565 -- The Queen's two bodies : Scotland and Spain, 1566 -- The birth of princes : Scotland and Spain, 1566-1567 -- The turn : France and Scotland, 1567 -- The prisoner : Lochleven Castle, Scotland, 1567 -- The death of a queen : Scotland, England, France and Spain, 1568 -- Last letters : Spain, France, and England, 1568 -- A daughter's love: Spain and France, 1568 -- Epilogue.
Summary: "Orphaned from infancy, Catherine de' Medici endured a tumultuous childhood. Married to the French king, she was widowed by forty, only to become the power behind the French throne during a period of intense civil strife. In 1546, Catherine gave birth to a daughter, Elisabeth de Valois, who would become Queen of Spain. Two years later, Catherine welcomed to her nursery the beguiling young Mary Queen of Scots, who would later become her daughter-in-law. Together, Catherine, Elisabeth, and Mary lived through the sea changes that transformed sixteenth-century Europe, a time of expanding empires, religious discord, and populist revolt, as concepts of nationhood began to emerge and ideas of sovereignty inched closer to absolutism. They would learn that to rule as a queen was to wage a constant war against the deeply entrenched misogyny of their time. Following the intertwined stories of the three women from girlhood through young adulthood, Leah Redmond Chang's Young Queens paints a picture of a world in which a woman could wield power at the highest level yet remain at the mercy of the state, her body serving as the currency of empire and dynasty, sacrificed to the will of husband, family, kingdom" -- Dust jacket flap.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Biography)
One of the New Yorker 's Best Books of 2023
One of BookRiot 's Best Biographies of 2023
Longlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize in Nonfiction

The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots--three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men.

Orphaned from infancy, Catherine de' Medici endured a tumultuous childhood. Married to the French king, she was widowed by forty, only to become the power behind the French throne during a period of intense civil strife. In 1546, Catherine gave birth to a daughter, Elisabeth de Valois, who would become Queen of Spain. Two years later, Catherine welcomed to her nursery the beguiling young Mary Queen of Scots, who would later become her daughter-in-law.

Together, Catherine, Elisabeth, and Mary lived through the sea changes that transformed sixteenth-century Europe, a time of expanding empires, religious discord, and populist revolt, as concepts of nationhood began to emerge and ideas of sovereignty inched closer to absolutism. They would learn that to rule as a queen was to wage a constant war against the deeply entrenched misogyny of their time.

Following the intertwined stories of the three women from girlhood through young adulthood, Leah Redmond Chang's Young Queens paints a picture of a world in which a woman could wield power at the highest level yet remain at the mercy of the state, her body serving as the currency of empire and dynasty, sacrificed to the will of husband, family, kingdom.

Originally published in 2023 by Bloomsbury, Great Britain.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue -- The orphan : Italy, 1519-1533 -- The second son : France, 1533-1536 -- Barren : France, 1536-1542 -- Motherhood : France, 1543-1553 -- The price : Scotland and France, 1537-1548 -- Empires : France, 1547-1553 -- Brides : France, 1558-1559 -- Accidents : France, 1559 -- Mary's book : France, 1548-1554 -- Journeys : France and Spain, 1559 -- Letters : France and Spain, 1559-1560 -- King's heart, Queen's Body : Spain, 1560 -- Sons and daughters : France, 1560-1561 -- Home : France, 1560 -- Don Carlos : France and Spain, 1561 -- The test : France and Spain, 1561 -- The return : France, Spain, Scotland, England, 1561 -- Queen of faith : Scotland, France, Spain, 1561-1563 -- Catholic kings : Scotland, 1562-1565 -- Family affairs : France, on the border with Spain, 1565 -- The Queen's two bodies : Scotland and Spain, 1566 -- The birth of princes : Scotland and Spain, 1566-1567 -- The turn : France and Scotland, 1567 -- The prisoner : Lochleven Castle, Scotland, 1567 -- The death of a queen : Scotland, England, France and Spain, 1568 -- Last letters : Spain, France, and England, 1568 -- A daughter's love: Spain and France, 1568 -- Epilogue.

"Orphaned from infancy, Catherine de' Medici endured a tumultuous childhood. Married to the French king, she was widowed by forty, only to become the power behind the French throne during a period of intense civil strife. In 1546, Catherine gave birth to a daughter, Elisabeth de Valois, who would become Queen of Spain. Two years later, Catherine welcomed to her nursery the beguiling young Mary Queen of Scots, who would later become her daughter-in-law. Together, Catherine, Elisabeth, and Mary lived through the sea changes that transformed sixteenth-century Europe, a time of expanding empires, religious discord, and populist revolt, as concepts of nationhood began to emerge and ideas of sovereignty inched closer to absolutism. They would learn that to rule as a queen was to wage a constant war against the deeply entrenched misogyny of their time. Following the intertwined stories of the three women from girlhood through young adulthood, Leah Redmond Chang's Young Queens paints a picture of a world in which a woman could wield power at the highest level yet remain at the mercy of the state, her body serving as the currency of empire and dynasty, sacrificed to the will of husband, family, kingdom" -- Dust jacket flap.

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