Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France.(Book review)

Canadian Journal of History | September 22, 2006| | Copyright

Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France, by Katherine Crawford. Harvard Historical Studies, number 145. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2004. x, 297 pp. $49.95 US (cloth).

Students and scholars of early modern French history may be familiar with the story of how Catherine de Medicis, Marie de Medicis, and Anne d'Autriche served as regents for their minor sons (Charles IX, Louis XIII, and Louis XIV, respectively) during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In this book, Katherine Crawford invites us to reconsider these ...

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