The Trials of Five Queens: Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Mary,...
Deans, R. Storry. The Trials of Five Queens: Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Mary, Queen of Scots, Marie Antoinette, and Caroline of Brunswick. London: Methuen & CO. Ltd., [1910]. Second edition. x, 408 pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt stamped spine, very good. Deckle edges. Foxing to pastedowns, endpapers, textblock, and pages. $65. * A compelling and rigorous legal-historical analysis examining the scandalous public trials of five legendary queens whose private hardships collided with royal politics, treason, and institutional gender biases. Written by British barrister and legal historian Richard Storry Deans, the volume meticulously reconstructs the judicial proceedings, evidence, and political motivations behind the fates of Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Mary Queen of Scots, Marie Antoinette, and Caroline of Brunswick.
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