YOUNG QUEENS: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power, by Leah Redmond Chang (Bloomsbury, $39.99) is out now in ebook and audiobook, in print on August 1.
Young Queens is the latest in a recent flurry of books by female historians seeking to highlight significant but often overlooked women in history: queens and consorts, wives and mothers, who for centuries have been relegated to the footnotes while male historians wrote of kings and battles.
The three queens highlighted by Leah Redmond Chang are Catherine de’ Medici (1519-89), Queen of
