Télécharger le livre :  Tudor and Stuart Consorts

This book examines the lives and tenures of all the consorts of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs of England between 1485 and 1714, as well as the wives of the two Lords Protector during the Commonwealth. The figures in Tudor and Stuart Consorts are both incredibly...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-07-20
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Writing Mary I

This book—along with its companion volume Mary I in Writing: Letters, Literature, and Representations—centers on representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of writing that queen into literature and other textual sources. It spans an...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-05-06
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Mary I in Writing

This book—along with its companion volume Writing Mary I: History, Historiography, and Fiction—centers on representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of writing that queen into literature and other textual sources. It spans an equally...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-04-25
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Memorialising Premodern Monarchs

This book examines the legacies and depictions of monarchs in an international context, focusing on both self-representation and commemoration by others. Spanning ancient India through to eighteenth-century Russia, this volume offers several case studies to demonstrate...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-11-22
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Representing the Life and Legacy of Renée de France

This book considers the life and legacy of Renée de France (1510–75), the youngest daughter of King Louis XII and Anne de Bretagne, exploring her cultural, spiritual, and political influence and her evolving roles and actions as fille de France, Duchess...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-07-23
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  French Royal Women during the Restoration and July Monarchy

This book examines public discussions around France's four most prominent royal women during the first and second Restoration and July Monarchy: the duchesse d’Angoulême, the duchesse de Berry, Queen of the French Marie-Amélie, and Adélaïde d’Orléans. These...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-06-10
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  The Archaeology and Material Culture of Queenship in Medieval Hungary, 1000–1395

This book explores an alternate history of the power and agency of 30 Hungarian queens over 400 years by a rigorous examination of the material culture connected with their lives. By researching the objects, images, and spaces, it demonstrates how these women...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-04-21
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Chaucer's Queens

This book investigates the agency and influence of medieval queens in late fourteenth-century England, focusing on the patronage and intercessory activities of the queens Philippa of Hainault and Anne of Bohemia, as well as the princess Joan of Kent. It examines the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-01-04
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn

This book explores 500 years of poetry, drama, novels, television and films about Anne Boleyn. Hundreds of writers across the centuries have been drawn to reimagine the story of her rise and fall. The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn tells the story of centuries of these...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-10-28
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Queenship and the Women of Westeros

Is the world of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s Game of Thrones really medieval? How accurately does it reflect the real Middle Ages? Historians have been addressing these questions since the book and television series exploded into a cultural...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-11-07
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Spenser's Heavenly Elizabeth

This book reveals the queen behind Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. Placing Spenser’s epic poem in the context of the tumultuous sixteenth century, Donald Stump offers a groundbreaking reading of the poem as an allegory of Elizabeth I’s life. By narrating the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-11-07
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Becoming a Queen in Early Modern Europe

Queens of Poland are conspicuously absent from the study of European queenship—an absence which, together with early modern Poland’s marginal place in the historiography, results in a picture of European royal culture that can only be lopsided and incomplete. Katarzyna...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-03-18
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Elizabeth I of England through Valois Eyes

This book examines the first thirty years of Elizabeth I’s reign from the perspective of the Valois kings, Charles IX and Henri III of France. Estelle Paranque sifts through hundreds of French letters and ambassadorial reports to construct a fuller picture of early...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-10-27
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Queen Caroline and Sir William Gell

This book explores the relationship between Queen Caroline, one of the most enigmatic characters in Regency England, and Sir William Gell, the leading classical scholar of his day. Despised and rejected by her husband, Caroline created a sphere and court of her own...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-09-25
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare's Queens

Of Shakespeare’s thirty-seven plays, fifteen include queens. This collection gives these characters their due as powerful early modern women and agents of change, bringing together new perspectives from scholars of literature, history, theater, and the fine arts. Essays...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-07-20
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Queenship and Counsel in Early Modern Europe

The discourse of political counsel in early modern Europe depended on the participation of men, as both counsellors and counselled. Women were often thought too irrational or imprudent to give or receive political advice—but they did in unprecedented numbers, as this...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-07-16
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty

Royal women did much more to wield power besides marrying the king and producing the heir. Subverting the dichotomies of public/private and formal/informal that gender public authority as male and informal authority as female, this book examines royal women as agents of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-05-21
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Shakespeare's Foreign Queens

This book examines Shakespeare’s depiction of foreign queens as he uses them to reveal and embody tensions within early modern English politics. Linking early modern and contemporary political theory and concerns through the concepts of fragmented identity, hospitality,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-05-11
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Imperial Ladies of the Ottonian Dynasty

In tenth-century Europe and particularly in Germany, imperial women were able to wield power in ways that were scarcely imaginable in earlier centuries. Theophanu and Adelheid were two of the most influential figures in the Ottonian reich along with their husbands, who...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-04-12
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Juana I

This book examines the deep and lengthy crisis of legitimacy triggered by the death of Prince Juan of Castile and Aragon in 1497 and the subsequent ascent of Juana I to the throne in 1504. Confined by historiography and myth to the madwoman’s attic, Juana emerges here...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-04-03
Collection : Queenship and Power
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