1990/06/01 by Barbara J. Harris · 136 citations
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paper · doi:10.1017/s0018246x00013327
published in The Historical Journal 33(2), 259-281 (Cambridge University Press)
openalex publication_date 1990/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Political historians working on the early Tudor period have traditionally concentrated on institutions – monarchy, council, parliament, courts, and administrative bodies – that excluded women. The very definition of politics underlying the dominant historiography has thus made it seem both natural and inevitable to write history as if the world of high politics, the world that really counted, were exclusively male.