The Monstrous Regiment of Women: Female Rulers in Early Modern Europe

In The Monstrous Regiment of Women, Sharon Jansen explores the case for and against female rule by examining the arguments made by theorists from Sir John Fortescue (1461) through Bishop Bossuet (1680) interweaving their arguments with references to the most well-known early modern queens. The 'story' of early modern European political history looks very different if, instead of focusing on kings and their sons, we see successive generations of powerful women and the shifting political alliances of the period from a very different, and revealing, perspective.

Author: S. Jansen
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 02/09/2010
Pages: 311
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780230621190

About the Author
SHARON L. JANSEN is Professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University, USA.