Details:
- author: Maureen Quilligan
- full title: When Women Ruled the World
- narrator: Suzanne Toren
- genre: history
- topics: #renaissance #history #queens #womenrulers
- publisher: HighBridge Audio
- publish date: 12.10.2021
- timing: 9:27:00
My Rating of the Audiobook:
- content: 💙💙💙💙
- narration: 💙💙💙💙💙
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Excerpt from the Book:
Rather than narrate the experiences of the remarkable number of individual women who exercised executive authority in sixteenth-century Europe, I have chosen to focus on these four, the best known women rulers, because their history has exerted the greatest influence and also because this history has previously been told from a prejudiced point of view.
My Thoughts:
A deep dive into the world of four sixteenth-century women: Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Catherine de Medici. This audiobook has four parts: The Tudors, The Stuarts, The Medici, and The Hapsburgs.
When Women Ruled the World is a very well-researched work. I read before about the Tudors. But here I learned some details that I didn’t know before. As stated above, this is a deep dive into this world, and therefore not so much a lightweight read. But it will be rewarding for scholars and those who are very interested in the subject and the time of the Renaissance.
I liked the narration by Suzanne Toren. Her voice perfect to narrate the story of powerful women.
About the Author:
Maureen Quilligan is R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English Emerita at Duke University. The author of books about medieval and Renaissance literature, she was also coeditor of the groundbreaking essay collection Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe.
