Warnicke, Retha M

Explores the life of Mary, Queen of Scots, discussing her French upbringing, coronation, marriages, ill health, challenges, rule, and other related topics, and providing information about the cultural and intellectual climate of the world in which she lived.

Describes the upbringing of Anne Boleyn, second queen of England's Henry VIII, and the social and religious contexts of her life, discussing sixteenth-century beliefs about sodomy, incest, fetal deformities, and witchcraft in a search for the true reasons she was executed.