Women Who Would Be Kings : Female Rulers of the Sixteenth Century
1st UK edition. 192pp. In black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine (gently rounded at spine tips). Upper text block edge dust marked. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original, not price clipped, dust jacket (lightly bumped at edges in places, minor shelf wear). Divided into two parts, this book explores the lives of a selection of 16th century European women rulers and the ways in which they were able to exercise power and operate within the male-dominated societies of their times. 8vo.
