Feminist Histories

Lieutenant Nun: The Life of Catalina de Erauso

Or: how a Spanish, cross-dressing, lesbian outlaw in colonial Peru managed to win the praise of the Pope and the King of Spain.
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Anne of France and Women's Political Education at the French Court
Anne was her brother's guardian, advisor, and Governor of France. But she also found time to establish a School of Virtue, a center of women's political…
 • Natalie Donnell
Louise de Clermont, Catherine de Medici, and the First War of Religion
The survival of a friendship in the face of civil war
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Louise de Clermont: Catherine de Medici's Closest Friend
The first half of her fifty-year career at the center of the French court
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Isabella Clara Eugenia: Heiress of Burgundy (pt. II)
The brief and glorious resurrection of the Duchy of Burgundy
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The Return of the Sovereign: Isabella Clara Eugenia's Journey to the Netherlands
Mary of Burgundy would be so proud!
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Madama of the Dutch Revolt
The Regency of Margaret of Parma, who bore the brunt of Philip II's failures in the Netherlands
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Mary of Hungary: the Reluctant Female Ruler?
How her reputation for hating her job helped her become the greatest of the Habsburg Regents
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Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Habsburg Netherlands
The minority governance for Charles V, the campaign for the Regency, and the Ladies' Peace as a masterclass in women's diplomacy
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Margaret: Archduchess of Austria, Queen of France, Princess of Spain, and Duchess of Savoy
The second installment of the "Ruling Ladies of the Low Countries" ... Part I.
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