Tuesday 2nd October 2018
Speaker: Professor Mark Greengrass
Mark Greengrass is a specialist in the history of the French Reformation and the French Wars of Religion, on which has published widely. His recent volume (2014) in the Penguin History of Europe series (Christendom Destroyed, 1517-1648) has now been translated into German, Italian and Spanish.
Venue: Guildhall Library, Gresham Street, London EC2 7HH
Time: 6pm
Admission: £7 plus booking fee (this price includes a glass of wine)
In sixteenth-century Europe, a world where power and masculinity went hand-in-hand in public and private life, Queens were the exception that became the rule. But they had to find ways of performing power differently, and especially when they were Protestants. Jeanne d'Albret was in a unique position: Queen of a mostly imaginary kingdom, she was a leading Protestant in a mostly Catholic country. This lecture explores her regnal arts in the context of the French wars of religion.
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