Abstract
This is a book review on Royal Mothers and their ruling Children. Wielding Political Authority from Antiquity to the Early Modern Era . Edited by Elena Woodacre and Carey Fleiner. Basingstoke, Palgrave MacMillan, 2015. ISBN 978-1-137-51310-6. VIII + 245 pp.
Highlights
The anthology Royal Mothers and their Ruling Children is an important starting point for addressing this gap, focusing on an aspect that has surprisingly been neglected in most studies on motherhood and mothering: the fact that being a mother can only be understood as a relationship – with the children
The volume is the first of a two-part collection on the “theme of royal motherhood, ambition, and authority” (Acknowledgments) and gathers ten case studies from different contexts ranging from the Roman Empire to the seventeenth century and from Aragon to China
The short introduction by editor Elena Woodacre sketches the architecture of the anthology, organized in three parts: “maternal ambition”, “maternal authority”, and “maternal influence”
Summary
Review: Royal Mothers and their Ruling Children The anthology Royal Mothers and their Ruling Children is an important starting point for addressing this gap, focusing on an aspect that has surprisingly been neglected in most studies on motherhood and mothering: the fact that being a mother can only be understood as a relationship – with the children.
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