Queenship at the Renaissance Courts of Britain
Queenship at the Renaissance Courts of Britain Catherine of Aragon (r.1509-33) and her sister-in-law Margaret Tudor (r.1503-13) presided as queens over the glittering sixteenth-century courts of…
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Queenship at the Renaissance Courts of Britain
Catherine of Aragon (r.1509-33) and her sister-in-law Margaret Tudor (r.1503-13) presided as queens over the glittering sixteenth-century courts of England and Scotland, alongside their husbands Henry VIII of England and James IVof Scotland. How did these young, foreign women become effective and trusted consorts, and powerful political figures in their own right?This book argues that Catherine and Margaret's performance of queenship combined medieval queenly virtues with the new opportunities for influence and power offered by Renaissance court culture. Although we know a great deal about these two formidable sixteenth-century kings, we understand very little about how their two queens contributed to their reigns.
Royal rituals such as childbirth and the Royal Maundy, courtly spectacles such as tournaments, banquets and diplomatic summits, or practices such as arranged marriages
Philosophers of the Renaissance
Flowering of the Renaissance
Britain at Bay