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When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe -- Maureen Quilligan, Paperback Sophocle in-depth" (MsThe sixteenth century in Europe was a time of chronic destabilization in which institutions of traditional authority were challenged and religious wars seemed unending. Yet it also witnessed the remarkable flowering of a pacifist culture, cultivated by a cohort of extraordinary women rulers most notably, Mary Tudor; Elizabeth I; Mary, Queen of Scots; and Catherine de' Medici whose lives were intertwined not only by blood and marriage, but by a shared