Queens Around the World, 15201620 (Paperback)

Dror Zeevi

ISBN 10: 3031586336 / ISBN 13: 9783031586330

Published by Springer International Publishing AG, 2024

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Paperback. This textbook explores the histories of royal women in Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. It argues that by dint of an unprecedented conjunction of historical shifts and powerful personalities, it was these women, and not men, who sat at the helm of global politics; moreover, it was they who in truth steered our worlds transition from the Middle Ages to modernity. Organized into chapters devoted to each of the eras great states, the book sets out to challenge several historical premises. First, it shows that women were the actual, if not always formally crowned, sovereigns of these states, or at least played a decisive role in shaping their policies. Second, the book dissolves the conventional dichotomy between East and West, showing that in both Christian Europe and Islamdom, women achieved their high status by means of similar strategies and at similar periods in history. Third, by demonstrating that there was a precedent for female authority long before the first harbingers of the womens movement in the eighteenth century, the book calls into question received ideas about historical progress and the evolution of womens liberation. This textbook explores the histories of royal women in Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Queens Around the World, 15201620 (Paperback)
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3031586336
• ISBN 13: 9783031586330
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

This textbook explores the histories of royal women in Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. It argues that by dint of an unprecedented conjunction of historical shifts and powerful personalities, it was these women, and not men, who sat at the helm of global politics; moreover, it was they who in truth steered our world’s transition from the Middle Ages to modernity. Organized into chapters devoted to each of the era’s great states, the book sets out to challenge several historical premises. First, it shows that women were the actual, if not always formally crowned, sovereigns of these states, or at least played a decisive role in shaping their policies. Second, the book dissolves the conventional dichotomy between East and West, showing that in both Christian Europe and Islamdom, women achieved their high status by means of similar strategies and at similar periods in history. Third, by demonstrating that there was a precedent for female authority long before the first harbingers of the women’s movement in the eighteenth century, the book calls into question received ideas about historical progress and the evolution of women’s liberation.

About the Author

Dror Ze’evi is Professor Emeritus of social and cultural Middle Eastern history at Ben Gurion University. His recent books include Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East 1500-1600 (2006) and The Thirty Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of its Christian Minorities 1894-1924 (with Benny Morris, 2019).