The Lioness Roared

The Problems of Female Rule in English History

C. Beem (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2008
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-60634-0 (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	20.7.2008
Reihe/Serie	Queenship and Power
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 272 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-230-60634-2 / 0230606342
ISBN-13	978-0-230-60634-0 / 9780230606340
Zustand	Neuware