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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesOctober 2021
Mary and Philip
The marriage of Tudor England and Habsburg Spain
by Alexander Samson
Mary I, eldest daughter of Henry VIII, was Queen of England from 1553 until her death in 1558. For much of this time she ruled alongside her husband, King Philip II of Spain, forming a co-monarchy that put England at the heart of early modern Europe. In this book, Alexander Samson presents a bold reassessment of Mary and Philip's reign, rescuing them from the neglect they have suffered at the hands of generations of historians. The co-monarchy of Mary I and Philip II put England at the heart of early modern Europe. This positive reassessment of their joint reign counters a series of parochial, misogynist and anti-Catholic assumptions, correcting the many myths that have grown up around the marriage and explaining the reasons for its persistent marginalisation in the historiography of sixteenth-century England. Using new archival discoveries and original sources, the book argues for Mary as a great Catholic queen, while fleshing out Philip's important contributions as king of England.
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2020
Mary and Philip
by Alexander Samson, Penny Roberts, William G. Naphy, Joseph Bergin
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Trusted PartnerAugust 2011
Was in unserem Herzen bleibt
Roman
by Baron, Michael / Übersetzt von Sommerfeld, Georgia
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Trusted PartnerLiterature & Literary StudiesNovember 2024
Women and madness in the early Romantic novel
Injured minds, ruined lives
by Deborah Weiss
Women and madness in the early Romantic novel returns madness to a central role in feminist literary criticism through an updated exploration of hysteria, melancholia, and love-madness in novels by Mary Wollstonecraft, Eliza Fenwick, Mary Hays, Maria Edgeworth, and Amelia Opie. This book argues that these early Romantic-period novelists revised medical and popular sentimental models for female madness that made inherent female weakness and the aberrant female body responsible for women's mental afflictions. The book explores how the more radical authors-Wollstonecraft, Fenwick and Hays-blamed men and patriarchal structures of control for their characters' hysteria and melancholia, while the more mainstream writers-Edgeworth and Opie-located causality in less gendered and less victimized accounts. Taken as a whole, the book makes a powerful case for focusing on women's mental health in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century literary criticism.
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Trusted PartnerSeptember 2010
Die Frau des Highlanders
Jahrhunderte trennten sie - doch ihre Liebe kannte keine Grenzen. Roman
by Mayhue, Melissa / Übersetzt von Sommerfeld, Georgia
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Ruf der Sehnsucht
Das Schicksal hatte sie entzweit - doch die Leidenschaft führte sie zusammen
by Ranney, Karen / Übersetzt von Sommerfeld, Georgia
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Trusted PartnerJuly 2009
Geliebter Lord
Sein Herz war kalt wie Stein - doch sie brachte es zum Glühen
by Ranney, Karen / Übersetzt von Sommerfeld, Georgia
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Trusted PartnerFebruary 2009
Fluch der Highlands
Er war rastlos und wild - doch sie zähmte sein Herz
by MacGillivray, Deborah / Übersetzt von Sommerfeld, Georgia
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