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Catherine of Braganza

Author : Sarah-Beth Watkins
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785355708
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Catherine of Braganza written by Sarah-Beth Watkins and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine of Braganza, a Portuguese princess, married Charles II in 1662 and became the merry monarch's Restoration queen. Yet life for her was not so merry - she put up with the king's many mistresses and continuous plots to remove her from the throne. She lived through times of war, plague and fire. Catherine's marriage saw many trials and tribulations including her inability to produce an heir. Yet Charles supported his queen throughout the Restoration, remaining devoted to her no matter what. Outliving her husband, she ended up back in her home country and spent her final days as queen-regent of Portugal.

Catherine of Braganza

Author : Dorothy Phoebe Ansle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Catherine of Braganza written by Dorothy Phoebe Ansle and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Forgotten Queens in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Author : Valerie Schutte
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351618733
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Queens in Medieval and Early Modern Europe written by Valerie Schutte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forgotten Queens in Medieval and Early Modern Europe examines queens dowager and queens consort who have disappeared from history or have been deeply misunderstood in modern historical treatment. Divided into eleven chapters, this book covers queenship from 1016 to 1800, demonstrating the influence of queens in different aspects of monarchy over eight centuries and furthering our knowledge of the roles and challenges that they faced. It also promotes a deeper understanding of the methods of power and patronage for women who were not queens, many of which have since become mythologized into what historians have wanted them to be. The chronological organisation of the book, meanwhile, allows the reader to see more clearly how these forgotten queens are related by the power, agency, and patronage they displayed, despite the mythologization to which they have all been subjected. Offering a broad geographical coverage and providing a comparison of queenship across a range of disciplines, such as religious history, art history, and literature, Forgotten Queens in Medieval and Early Modern Europe is ideal for students and scholars of pre-modern queenship and of medieval and early modern history courses more generally.

Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800)

Author : Nina Lamal
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004448896
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800) written by Nina Lamal and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print, in the early modern period, could make or break power. This volume addresses one of the most urgent and topical questions in early modern history: how did European authorities use a new medium with such tremendous potential? The eighteen contributors develop new perspectives on the relationship between the rise of print and the changing relationships between subjects and rulers by analysing print’s role in early modern bureaucracy, the techniques of printed propaganda, genres, and strategies of state communication. While print is often still thought of as an emancipating and disruptive force of change in early modern societies, the resulting picture shows how instrumental print was in strengthening existing power structures. Contributors: Renaud Adam, Martin Christ, Jamie Cumby, Arthur der Weduwen, Nora Epstein, Andreas Golob, Helmer Helmers, Jan Hillgärtner, Rindert Jagersma, Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba, Nina Lamal, Margaret Meserve, Rachel Midura, Gautier Mingous, Ernesto E. Oyarbide Magaña, Caren Reimann, Chelsea Reutchke, Celyn David Richards, Paolo Sachet, Forrest Strickland, and Ramon Voges.

Mistresses

Author : Linda Porter
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509877088
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Mistresses written by Linda Porter and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the great diarist, John Evelyn, Charles II was ‘addicted to women’, and throughout his long reign a great many succumbed to his charms. Clever, urbane and handsome, Charles presided over a hedonistic court, in which licence and licentiousness prevailed. Mistresses is the story of the women who shared Charles’s bed, each of whom wielded influence on both the politics and cultural life of the country. From the young king-in-exile’s first mistress and mother to his first child, Lucy Walter, to the promiscuous and ill-tempered courtier, Barbara Villiers. From Frances Teresa Stuart, ‘the prettiest girl in the world’ to history’s most famous orange-seller, ‘pretty, witty’ Nell Gwynn and to her fellow-actress, Moll Davis, who bore the last of the king’s fifteen illegitimate children. From Louise de Kéroualle, the French aristocrat – and spy for Louis XIV – to the sexually ambiguous Hortense Mancini. Here, too, is the forlorn and humiliated Queen Catherine, the Portuguese princess who was Charles’s childless queen. Drawing on a wide variety of original sources, including material in private archives, Linda Porter paints a vivid picture of these women and of Restoration England, an era that was both glamorous and sordid.

Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria

Author : Susan Dunn-Hensley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319632272
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria written by Susan Dunn-Hensley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how early Stuart queens navigated their roles as political players and artistic patrons in a culture deeply conflicted about the legitimacy of female authority. Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria both employed powerful female archetypes such as Amazons and the Virgin Mary in court performances. Susan Dunn-Hensley analyzes how darker images of usurping, contaminating women, epitomized by the witch, often merged with these celebratory depictions. By tracing these competing representations through the Jacobean and Caroline periods, Dunn-Hensley peels back layers of misogyny from historical scholarship and points to rich new lines of inquiry. Few have written about Anna’s religious beliefs, and comparing her Catholicism with Henrietta Maria’s illuminates the ways in which both women were politically subversive. This book offers an important corrective to centuries of negative representation, and contributes to a fuller understanding of the role of queenship in the English Civil War and the fall of the Stuart monarchy.

Painted Ladies

Author : Catharine MacLeod
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Painted Ladies written by Catharine MacLeod and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides an exploration and reconsideration of Restoration portraiture, considering some of the most beautiful paintings of the period, portraits of women of prominence and influence within the court of Charles II, from royal brides and daughters to mistresses and actresses.

The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance and the English Merchants in Portugal, 1654-1810

Author : L. M. E. Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance and the English Merchants in Portugal, 1654-1810 written by L. M. E. Shaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English-Portuguese alliance of 1654 lasted for 156 years. Interweaving politics, economics, religion and commerce to portray what life was like for English merchants in Portugal, this work is the result of many years of archival research.

The Merry Monarch's Wife

Author : Jean Plaidy
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307409961
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Merry Monarch's Wife written by Jean Plaidy and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-01-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles II is restored to the English throne, and his court is lively and even scandalous. The country is eager for succession to be clear and certain: The next king will be the son of Charles II and his queen, Catherine of Braganza. Yet Catherine, daughter of the king of Portugal and a Catholic, has never been popular with the English people. She is also having great difficulty conceiving an heir, even as many of Charles’s well-known mistresses are bearing his children with ease. Catherine is aware that courtiers close to Charles are asking him to divorce her and take another wife—yet she is determined to hold her title in the face of all odds. The ninth novel in the beloved Queens of England series, The Merry Monarch’s Wife brings Catherine of Braganza to life and plunges readers into the tumultuous world of Restoration England.

The Child from the Sea

Author : Elizabeth Goudge
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
ISBN 13 : 161970837X
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book The Child from the Sea written by Elizabeth Goudge and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the pomp and pageantry of turbulent seventeenth century England, Elizabeth Goudge weaves the poignant tale of Lucy Walter, the proud and beautiful secret wife of Charles II. From her early childhood in a castle by the sea in Wales and the joys and pangs of childhood, to her tragic estrangement from the king and her death in Paris at the age of twenty-eight, Lucy Walter lived to the full a life of intense joy and equally intense drama. Miss Goudge portrays brilliantly a young love almost too ecstatic to bear. Equally moving is her characterization of Lucy—a spirited woman caught up in the cataclysmic wars and disruptive revolution of a tumultuous era. From London at the time of the Great Fire, to Paris when British royalty fled to the sanctuary of the Louvre, to Brussels and The Hague and a rich panoramic background—a master storyteller traces the life and loves of an extraordinary woman. The Child from the Sea is a superbly colorful and romantic historical novel alive with brilliant cameos and infused with a spiritual essence rare in our times.

King Charles II

Author : Antonia Fraser
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780220685
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book King Charles II written by Antonia Fraser and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following a youth of poverty and bitter exile after his father's execution, the ousted king first challenged, then made his magnificent escape from, Cromwell's troops before he was eventually restored to his throne in triumph in 1660. Spanning his life both before and after the Restoration, Antonia Fraser's lively and fascinating biography captures all the vitality of the man and the expansiveness of the age.

The King's Bed

Author : Don Jordan
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1405528893
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book The King's Bed written by Don Jordan and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To refer to the private life of Charles II is to abuse the adjective. His personal life was anything but private. His amorous liaisons were largely conducted in royal palaces surrounded by friends, courtiers and literally hundreds of servants and soldiers. Gossip radiated throughout the kingdom. Charles spent most of his wealth and his intellect on gaining and keeping the company of women, from the lowest sections of society such as the actress Nell Gwyn to the aristocratic Louise de Kérouaille. Some of Charles' women played their part in the affairs of state, colouring the way the nation was run. Don Jordan and Michael Walsh take us inside Charles' palace, where we will meet court favourites, amusing confidants, advisors jockeying for political power, mistresses past and present as well as key figures in his inner circle such as his 'pimpmasters' and his personal pox doctor. The astonishing private life of Charles II reveals much about the man he was and why he lived and ruled as he did. The King's Bed tells the compelling story of a king ruled by his passion.

Lady Katherine Knollys

Author : Sarah-Beth Watkins
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782795847
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Lady Katherine Knollys written by Sarah-Beth Watkins and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katherine Knollys was Mary Boleyn's first child, born in 1524 when Mary was having an affair with King Henry VIII. Katherine spent her life unacknowledged as the king's daughter, yet she was given prime appointments at court as maid of honour to both Anne of Cleves and Katherine Howard. She married Francis Knollys when she was 16 and went on to become mother to many successful men and women at court including Lettice Knollys who created a scandal when she married Sir Robert Dudley, the queen's favourite. This fascinating book studies Katherine's life and times, including her intriguing relationship with Elizabeth I.

A Book of Bombay

Author : James Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Book of Bombay written by James Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c.1500-1800

Author : Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317072871
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c.1500-1800 written by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics examines the roles that queens consort played in dynastic politics and cultural transfer between their natal and marital courts during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This collection of essays analyses the part that these queens played in European politics, showing how hard and soft power, high politics and cultural influences, cannot be strictly separated. It shows that the root of these consorts’ power lay in their dynastic networks and the extent to which they cultivated them. The consorts studied in this book come from territories such as Austria, Braunschweig, Hanover, Poland, Portugal, Prussia and Saxony and travel to, among other places, Britain, Naples, Russia, Spain and Sweden. The various chapters address different types of cultural manifestation, among them collecting, portraiture, panegyric poetry, libraries, theatre and festivals, learning, genealogical literature and architecture. The volume significantly shifts the direction of scholarship by moving beyond a focus on individual historical women to consider ‘queens consort’ as a category, making it valuable reading for students and scholars of early modern gender and political history.

Ladies in Waiting

Author : Anne Somerset
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9781474608015
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Ladies in Waiting written by Anne Somerset and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Provides a wealth of juicy anecdotal material about five centuries of court life from Henry VIII to Elizabeth II' NEW YORK TIMES For centuries the most beautiful, able and aristocratic women in England competed for positions at court. Some were drawn by the prospect of political power. Lucy, Countess of Carlisle, for instance, succeeded in acquiring the confidence of Charles I's French wife, Henrietta Maria, only to betray the Queen to her enemies in Parliament. Some ladies-in-waiting became royal mistresses, such as the rapacious Lady Castlemaine who amassed a fortune and flaunted her hold over Charles II. Others came to court to find husbands only to discover that they were denied permission to marry by their sovereign. Drawing on an enormous variety of sources including the diaries of such shrewd onlookers as Lady Anne Clifford, Lady Cowper and Fanny Burney, Anne Somerset provide a guide to the character, profligate or pious, of each court.

The English Garrison of Tangier

Author : Andrew Abram
Publisher : Century of the Soldier
ISBN 13 : 9781915070326
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The English Garrison of Tangier written by Andrew Abram and published by Century of the Soldier. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the creation, experience, composition, and withdrawal of Charles II's military garrison and colony of Tangier in Morocco, between 1661 and 1684. It is based upon up-to-date research and mainly unpublished material.