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Sex with the queen : 900 years of vile kings, virile lovers, and passionate politics
- Author
- Herman, Eleanor, 1960-
- Title
- Sex with the queen : 900 years of vile kings, virile lovers, and passionate politics / Eleanor Herman.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Published
- New York : W. Morrow, c2006.
- Description
- xii, 322 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0610/2006043840.html
- Portion of title
- 900 years of vile kings, virile lovers, and passionate politics
- Variant title
- Nine hundred years of vile kings, virile lovers, and passionate politics
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-311) and index.
- Contents
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- Life behind palace walls
- The queen takes a lover
- Medieval queens, tudor victims
- The seventeenth century: escape from the gilded cage
- Eighteenth-century Russia: the unchaste empresses
- Eighteenth-century Europe: power, passion, and politics - The nineteenth century: audacity and outrage
- The turn of the twentieth century: struggle for equality
- Diana, Princess of many lovers
- The politics of adultery.
- Kinsey subjects
- Paramours--Male. Political sex scandals. Courtly love.
- ISBN
- 9780060846732 0060846739 (alk. paper) 0061171360 (pbk.) 9780061171369 (pbk.)