what with all the reigning queens littering the landscape
One of the things I find the most fascinating about sixteenth-century Europe is the way that, for a whole confluence of reasons, the landscape was littered with reigning queens and female Heirs Possible and the occasional woman (Diane de Poitiers) who may not have had a crown but you couldn't tell it to look at her. I don't know of any other time period when there were so many of them at once.
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Date: 2010-02-07 11:21 pm (UTC)One of the things I find the most fascinating about sixteenth-century Europe is the way that, for a whole confluence of reasons, the landscape was littered with reigning queens and female Heirs Possible and the occasional woman (Diane de Poitiers) who may not have had a crown but you couldn't tell it to look at her. I don't know of any other time period when there were so many of them at once.