: Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe E. Sadlack Springer , 11 Apr 2011 - History - 266 pages 0 Reviews A fresh biography of Mary Tudor which challenges conventional views of her as a weeping hysteric and love-struck romantic, providing instead the portrait of a queen who drew on two sources of authority to increase the power of her position: epistolary conventions and the rhetoric of chivalry that imbued the French and English courts. Preview this book »