Royal mothers and their ruling children : wielding political authority from antiquity to the early modern era / edited by Elena Woodacre and Carey Fleiner.

"This collection brings together a series of fascinating case studies of royal mothers ranging across time from Antiquity through to the seventeenth century, from the (in)famous -- Agrippina the Younger and Catherine de Medici -- to the lesser known -- Judith of Thuringia. This collection focus...

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