Name Unknown The Life Of A Rusian Queen

Author : Christian Raffensperger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040030149
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Name Unknown: The Life of a Rusian Queen written by Christian Raffensperger and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Name Unknown: The Life of a Rusian Queen offers an example of an eastern European queen as a corrective to the western European focus of medieval queenship studies. Through a chronological approach, this book looks beyond the popular biographies of royal women such as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Berengaria of Castile and gathers material from sources throughout Europe. It engages with modern queenship studies literature to create a collective biography of a Rusian queen through the various cycles of her life from the marriage of eight-year-old Verkhuslava to the death of the ruler of Minsk whose generosity is recorded, but not her name. For medievalists interested in women and queens, Name Unknown: The Life of a Rusian Queen provides an entry point to an area of Europe rarely studied in that literature. For Slavists, it presents a way of looking at medieval Rusian women that has not yet appeared in this scholarly tradition. Ultimately, this biography integrates Rus, and eastern Europe, into the medieval world and acts as an important reminder that women are essential to our history and thus to our overall understanding of the past. This book is of great use to students and scholars interested in the history of women, queenship, and medieval Europe.

Author : Christian Raffensperger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781003325185
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Name Unknown written by Christian Raffensperger and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Name Unknown offers an example of an eastern European queen as a corrective to the western European focus of medieval queenship studies. This book is of great use to students and scholars interested in the history of women, queenship, and medieval Europe"--

Author : John T. Alexander
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195061628
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catherine the Great:Life and Legend written by John T. Alexander and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989-11-09 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most colorful characters in modern history, Catherine II of Russia began her life as a minor German princess, until the childless Empress Elizabeth and Catherine's own scheming mother married her off to the Grand Duke Peter of Russia at age sixteen. By thirty-three, she had overthrown her husband in a bloodless coup and established herself as Empress of the multinational Russian Empire, the largest territorial political unit in modern history.Portrayed both as a political genius who restored to Russia the glory it had known in the days of Peter the Great and as a despotic foreign adventuress who usurped the Russian throne, murdered her rivals, and tyrannized her subjects, she was, by all accounts, an extraordinary woman. Catherine the Great, the first popular biography of the empress based on contemporary scholarship, provides a vivid portrait of Catherine as a mother, a lover, and, above all, an extremely savvy ruler. Concentrating on her long reign (1762-96), John Alexander examines all aspects of Catherine's life and career: the brilliant political strategies by which she won the acceptance of a nationalistic elite; her expansive foreign policy; the domestic reforms with which she revamped the Russian military, political structure, and economy; and, of course, her infamous love life.Beginning with an account of the dramatic palace revolt by which Catherine unseated her husband and a background chapter describing the circumstances of her early childhood and marriage, Alexander then proceeds chronologically through the thirty-four years of her reign. Presenting Catherine in more human terms than previous biographers have, Alexander includes numerous quotations from her reminiscences and notes. We learn, for instance, not only the names and number of her lovers, but her understanding of what many considered a shocking licentiousness. "The trouble is," she wrote, "that my heart would not willingly remain one hour without love."The result of twenty years' research by one of America's leading narrative historians of modern Russia, this truly impressive work offers a much-needed, balanced reappraisal of one of history's most scandal-ridden figures.

Author : Catherine II (Empress of Russia)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Catherine the Great written by Catherine II (Empress of Russia) and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Pierpont Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures written by John Pierpont Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ekaterina R. Daškova
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822316213
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova written by Ekaterina R. Daškova and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This memoir tell the story of a woman who at age eighteen played an important role in the coup that brought Catherine the Great to the throne. The relationship between these two women, often tense, is a central theme throughout this story. Dashkova, occupying the highly unusual position of both stateswoman and mother, also reveals her own path between the demands and limitations of the private and public spheres of her society. She provides a view of the expectations of Russian aristocratic women, the possibilities available to them, and the ways in which gender roles were conceived in the eighteenth century."--[book cover].

Author : Benjamin Eli Smith
Publisher : New York : The Century Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1114 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Century Cyclopedia of Names written by Benjamin Eli Smith and published by New York : The Century Company. This book was released on 1895 with total page 1114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
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Download or read book Pharmaceutical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Dwight Whitney
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1106 pages
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Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century cyclopedia of names ... ed. by Benjamin E. Smith written by William Dwight Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Dwight Whitney
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1144 pages
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Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century Cyclopedia of names written by William Dwight Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: