Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dunn, Caroline (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Carney, Elizabeth (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Queenship and Power
• Subjects: Europe-History.; Imperialism.; Women.; Civilization-History.; European History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; Women's Studies.; Cultural History.

Royal women did much more to wield power besides marrying the king and producing the heir. Subverting the dichotomies of public/private and formal/informal that gender public authority as male and informal authority as female, this book examines royal women as agents of influence. With an expansive...