Queens
The Game of Queens
Guest: Sarah Gristwood, author of "Game of Queens; The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe"
We tend to remember Medieval and Renaissance Europe as a continent where kings and knights held power, and princesses were meant to be rescued. But Sarah Gristwood’s book Game of Queens reminds us that it was often the women of Europe who determined its destiny.
Egypt’s First Female King
Guest: Kara Cooney, Egyptologist, author of "The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt," and professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA
Rulers who fail are sometimes easier to remember than rulers who succeed—terrible tales reverberate where peace does not. We should remember, though, those who succeeded before us, and so we discuss the story of Hatshepsut, Egypt’s first female King.