The Lioness Roared

The Problems of Female Rule in English History

C. Beem (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2006
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-4039-7203-3 (ISBN)

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Charles Beem uses Gender Studies and political and constitutional History to examine the problems faced by female rulers throughout British history, from the twelfth century Empress Matilda's imaginative efforts to become England's first regnant queen, to Queen Victoria's remarkable exercise of political power during the Bedchamber Crisis of 1839.

Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Pembroke, USA.

Introduction: The Lioness Roared Making a Name for Herself: The Empress Matilda and the Construction of Female Lordship in Twelfth Century England Her Kingdom's Wife: Mary I and the Gender of Regal Power "I Am Her Majesty's Subject": Queen Anne, Prince George of Denmark, and the Transformation of the English Male Consort "What Power Have I Left?": Queen Victoria's Bedchamber Crisis Revisted Does the Lioness Still Roar?

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.4.2006
Reihe/Serie	Queenship and Power
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 272 p.
Verlagsort	Gordonsville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4039-7203-6 / 1403972036
ISBN-13	978-1-4039-7203-3 / 9781403972033
Zustand	Neuware