Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power Chang Leah Redmond
From French literature and culture scholar Leah Redmond Chang, Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power is the riveting intertwined story of three sovereigns as they exercise power…
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From French literature and culture scholar Leah Redmond Chang, Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power is the riveting intertwined story of three sovereigns as they exercise 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 rocked sixteenth-century Europe: a time of expanding empires, religious discord, and populist revolt, as