Cassidy Percoco reviewed The rival queens by Nancy Bazelon Goldstone
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1 star
I was excited to read this as I want to improve my knowledge of royalty outside English history, but in the end I just couldn't do it. It seemed like the main sources Goldstone was using were primary ones (that is, documents from the sixteenth century) and she by and large seemed to be taking them at face value, without doing the kind of analysis a scholar should to deal with the intentions and biases of the writers. I couldn't stop yelling inside my head about it, so I gave up.
