03582nam a22005895i 4500 978-3-031-58634-7 DE-He213 20251030114605.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241206s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031586347 978-3-031-58634-7 10.1007/978-3-031-58634-7 doi HQ1121-1154 HBTB bicssc JFSJ bicssc HIS058000 bisacsh NHTB thema JBSF thema Ze’evi, Dror. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 88602 Queens Around the World, 1520–1620 [electronic resource] : A Century of Female Power / by Dror Ze’evi. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XV, 293 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1. Introduction -- 2. Sultanas of the Ottoman Empire -- 3. Mughal Queens of Hindustan -- 4. The Safavid Queens of Iran -- 5. Queens of the Jews -- 6. Queens of France -- 7. Queens of the British Isles and Ireland -- 8. The Three Phases of 16th Century Female Rule -- 9. Conclusion: How and Why did it End?. 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. Women History. 68068 World history. 65220 Asia History. 69659 Europe History. 70908 Europe History 1492-. 68968 Women's History / History of Gender. 68069 World History, Global and Transnational History. 66470 Asian History. 69662 European History. 57767 History of Early Modern Europe. 68969 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031586330 Printed edition: 9783031586354 Printed edition: 9783031586361 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58634-7 ZDB-2-HTY ZDB-2-SXH 65518 65518