Fleiner & Woodacre (eds.), Royal Mothers and their Ruling Children (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015); & Fleiner and Woodacre (eds.), Virtuous or Villainess? The Image of the Royal Mother from the Early Medieval to the Early Modern Era (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)

Abstract

Review of Elena Woodacre and Carey Fleiner, eds., Royal Mothers and their Ruling Children: Wielding Political Authority from the Antiquity to the Early Modern Age (New York: Palgrace Macmillan, 2015); and Elena Woodacre and Carey Fleiner, eds., Virtuous or Villainess? The Image of the Royal Mother from from the Early Medieval to the Early Modern Era (New York: Palgrave Macmilla, 2016).