Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Early female sovereigns in global perspective
  • Europe's female sovereigns, 1300-1800 : an overview
  • Difficult beginnings : heiresses with crowned husbands, 1300-1550
  • Female regents promote female rule, 1500-1630
  • Husbands finessed : the era of Elizabeth I, 1550-1700
  • Husbands subordinated : the era of Maria Theresa, 1700-1800
  • Ruling without inheriting : Russian empresses
  • Female rule after 1800 : constitutions and popular culture.