Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe by Sarah Gristwood

Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe

Sarah Gristwood

416 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule. From Isabella of Castile, and her granddaughter Mary Tudor, to Catherine de Medici, Anne Boleyn, and Elizabeth Tudor, these women wielded enormous power over their territories, shaping the ...

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