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

by Sharon L. Jansen

Book Overview

When Mary Tudor became queen of England, the succession of a woman to the throne horrified many, including the Protestant reformer John Knox. His blistering condemnation of female rule, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, was followed in print by a series of pamphlets that echoed and expanded his argument that female rule was unnatural, unlawful, and contrary to scripture. In her own variation on this "monstrous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312213417
• ISBN13: 9780312213411
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.7"