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The volume edited by the historian Aleksandra Skrzypietz presents seven queens from the early modern era in Europe. Seven contributions highlight the respective queens role within the complex web of court and family arrangements. Individual agency as well as the social structures of the courtly world of intrigue and shifting coalitions determined whether a queen was able to retain her position of power or lost it. Often enough, they became the victims of their own kin, new and old, in these struggles for power. Queens within Networks of Family and Court Connections is ideal for students and scholars of royal history and early modern European history.

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      Publisher: Bohlau Verlag
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/11/2021
      ISBN13: 9783412523909, 978-3412523909
      ISBN10: 3412523909

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      Book Synopsis
      The volume edited by the historian Aleksandra Skrzypietz presents seven queens from the early modern era in Europe. Seven contributions highlight the respective queens role within the complex web of court and family arrangements. Individual agency as well as the social structures of the courtly world of intrigue and shifting coalitions determined whether a queen was able to retain her position of power or lost it. Often enough, they became the victims of their own kin, new and old, in these struggles for power. Queens within Networks of Family and Court Connections is ideal for students and scholars of royal history and early modern European history.

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