{"product_id":"9789493531055","title":"Princess: Fifty Feisty Noblewomen","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eCauteren, Katharina; Kelchtermans, Leen\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHannibal Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e1\/12\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrincess – Fifty Feisty Noblewomen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ereveals how fifty royal women wielded power, navigated courtly constraints, and transformed roles into influence, ambition, and survival, reshaping history with audacity and strategy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrincess – Fifty Feisty Noblewomen \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eis not a gallery of tiaras and fairytales. It is a book about power – and the price of wearing a crown.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn fifty sharp, vividly researched portraits \u003cb\u003eDr Katharina Van Cauteren\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eDr Leen Kelchtermans\u003c\/b\u003e bring to life women who were far more than decorative consorts. Some ruled outright. Others governed through letters, lovers, wardrobes, or wombs. All of them maneuvered within systems that were never designed for them – and bent those systems to their will.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFrom Habsburg archduchesses to Bourbon rebels, from queens who carried empires in their dowries to widows who turned mourning into political theater, these women lived where blood, faith and strategy collided. Their bodies were battlegrounds. Their marriages were treaties. Their jewels were propaganda. Yet within the strict choreography of court ritual, they found room for audacity, wit and sheer survival instinct.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis is a book about dynasties, desire, and diplomacy – but also about loneliness, ambition, and resilience. It explores how a princess could be at once a pawn and a player, a mother and a monarch, an ornament and an architect of history.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWritten with scholarly precision and narrative flair, Princess dismantles the myth of passive royalty and replaces it with something far more compelling: women of flesh and blood, who refused to dissolve into courtly foam.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBecause a title was never just a title. It was a destiny.","brand":"Hannibal Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48700884877567,"sku":"9789493531055","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9789493531055_s600x595.png?v=1781631983","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9789493531055","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}