Women and Power at the French Court, 1483-1563

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This book explores the ways in which a range of women-as consorts, regents, mistresses, factional power players, attendants at court, or as objects of courtly patronage-wielded power in order to advance individual, familial, and factional agendas in the early sixteenth-century French court. Spring b...

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Frontmatter --
Table of Contents --
List of Figures --
In the Orbit of the King /
Part I: Conceptualizing and Practicing Female Power --
1. The Political, Symbolic, and Courtly Power of Anne de France and Louise de Savoie /
2. Anne de France and Gift-Giving /
3. Louise de Savoie /
Part II: Centers and Peripheries of Power --
4. Literary Lessons in Queenship and Power /
5. Claude de France and the Spaces of Agency of a Marginalized Queen /
6. Portraits of Eleanor of Austria /
Part III: The Power of Creative Voices --
7. Family Female Networking in Early Sixteenth-Century France /
8. The Power of Reputation and Skills according to Anne de Graville /
9. Imagination and Influence /
10. Power through Print /
Part IV: Economies of Power and Emotions --
11. The Life and After-Life of a Royal Mistress /
12. 'The King and I' /
13. Catherine de Médicis Tested by the Virtue of Charity (1533-1559) /
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1. Verfasser:
Broomhall, Susan (HerausgeberIn)
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
This book explores the ways in which a range of women-as consorts, regents, mistresses, factional power players, attendants at court, or as objects of courtly patronage-wielded power in order to advance individual, familial, and factional agendas in the early sixteenth-century French court. Spring boarding from the burgeoning scholarship of gender, the political, and power in early modern Europe, the book provides a perspective from the French court, from the reigns of Charles VIII to Henri II, a time at which the French court was a glittering centre of culture and which women are understood to have played increasingly important roles. Cross-disciplinary in its perspectives, these essays by historians, art and literary scholars cohesively investigate the dynamic operations of gendered power in political acts, recognised status as queens and regents, ritualised behaviors such as gift-giving, educational coteries, courtly household organisation, and social networking, literary and artistic patronage, female authorship, and epistolary strategies.
Umfang:
1 online resource (385 pages).
Anmerkungen:
In English.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Schriftenreihe:
Gendering the late medieval and early modern world
ISBN:
1-04-077538-1
1-003-70957-5
1-04-078494-1
90-485-3340-6
9781003709572
Zugangseinschränkungen:
Open Access
Schlagworte:
Power (Social sciences) > France > History > 16th century.
Power (Social sciences) > France > History > 15th century.
Women > History > Renaissance, 1450-1600.
Women > France > History > 16th century.
Women > France > History > 15th century.
Women > France > Social conditions > 16th century.
Women > France > Social conditions > 15th century.
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