Because full time job, some examples of my current research focus area, but male mediocrity:
The rise of women to power is an overblown thing, really it is the recontextualisation of history that must be done first before mediocre ones open their mouths. So in the Tudor period, women were both Regnant and Regent, Elizabeth I being Regnant and Catherine de Medici being Regent. During the 1550s, many people were still under the mediocre assumption Elizabeth would be cajoled into marrying. She didnt sway. Eventually, this meant Catherine had to sign some peace treaties letting the protestants be, protestant in Catholic France. Mediocrity at its finest. Then, Catherine had this written for Elizabeth and I have included a passage of text from what Elizabeth was actually dealing with whilst Catherine sat on a hoard of gold and England was essentially plundering second hand colonial loot for a living and doing deals with anything that didn't like Continental Europe. Including Continental Europe:
For the truth is that the King of France and of England, however strong in arms, trained in politics or advised by council, only knew how to make unending war, surprises, factions and plots, while two queens, eminently wise and virtuous, as if by miracle, have not only made peace but perfectly: showing by such a magnanimous act, how the female sex, heretofore barred from bearing the scepter, is by its nature generously worthy of command. . . . it seemed to me I should be envied for the ease and peace of the present age, and participating in the general and particular relief in which I see the people peacefully content, I bear testimony to such a prudent Gynecocracy, under which the public state is so virtuously policed and so I consecrate this little book in the memory of such happy government. (Oeuvres Completes, ed. Paul Laumonier, Paris: Librarie Marcel Didier, 1948, XII, 34) [1]
His polemic against female rulers had negative consequences for him when Elizabeth I succeeded her half-sister Mary I as Queen of England; Elizabeth was a supporter of the Protestant cause, but took offence at Knox's words about female sovereigns. Her opposition to him personally became an obstacle to Knox's direct involvement with the Protestant cause in England after 1559. She blamed him and the city of Geneva for permitting The First Blast to be published.[3] Members of the Genevan congregation were searched, persecuted, and exiled. In 1558, the queen prohibited "importing of heretical and seditious books" into England.[12] After Knox revealed himself as the author of The First Blast, through a letter to the queen, he was refused entrance to England.[10][4] Despite Knox's efforts to keep the blame for The First Blast on himself, his followers and other Protestants were punished.[12] In a letter to the writer Anna Locke (c.1533-1591) on 6 April 1569, John Knox said, "To me it is written that my First Blast hath blown from me all my friends in England." Knox ended his letter, though, by saying that he stood by what he had said.[2]
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