Mother Queens and Princely Sons

Mother Queens and Princely Sons
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 203
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ISBN-10 : 9781137003805
ISBN-13 : 1137003804
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Synopsis Mother Queens and Princely Sons by : S. Ray

This study explores representations of the Madonna and Child in early modern culture. It considers the mother and son as a conceptual, religio-political unit and examines the ways in which that unit was embodied and performed. Of primary interest is the way mothers derived agency from bearing incipient rulers.

The Queens Regnant of Navarre

The Queens Regnant of Navarre
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 431
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ISBN-10 : 9781137339157
ISBN-13 : 1137339152
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis The Queens Regnant of Navarre by : Elena Woodacre

The five queens of Navarre were the largest group of female sovereigns in one European realm during the Middle Ages, but they are largely unknown beyond a regional audience. This survey fills this scholarly lacuna, focusing particularly on issues of female succession, agency, and power-sharing dynamic between the queens and their male consorts.

Becoming a Queen in Early Modern Europe

Becoming a Queen in Early Modern Europe
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 262
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ISBN-10 : 9783030118488
ISBN-13 : 3030118487
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Becoming a Queen in Early Modern Europe by : Katarzyna Kosior

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 Kosior cuts through persistent stereotypes of an East-West dichotomy and a culturally isolated early modern Poland to offer a groundbreaking comparative study of royal ceremony in Poland and France. The ceremonies of becoming a Jagiellonian or Valois queen, analysed in their larger European context, illuminate the connections that bound together monarchical Europe. These ceremonies are a gateway to a fuller understanding of European royal culture, demonstrating that it is impossible to make claims about European queenship without considering eastern Europe.

Berenice II Euergetis

Berenice II Euergetis
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9781137494627
ISBN-13 : 113749462X
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Berenice II Euergetis by : Branko van Oppen de Ruiter

Berenice II Euergetis (267/6-221 BCE), the daughter of King Magas of Cyrene (Libya) and wife of King Ptolemy III of Egypt, was queen at an important juncture in Hellenistic history. This collection of four essays focuses on aspects of chronology, genealogy and marital practices, royal ideology and queenship.

Yolande of Aragon (1381-1442) Family and Power

Yolande of Aragon (1381-1442) Family and Power
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 299
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ISBN-10 : 9781137499134
ISBN-13 : 1137499133
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Yolande of Aragon (1381-1442) Family and Power by : Zita Eva Rohr

Yolande of Aragon is one of the most intriguing of late medieval queens who contrived to be everywhere and nowhere, operating seamlessly from backstage and center stage. She is acknowledged as having been shrewd and intelligent - an éminence grise whose political and diplomatic agency secured the throne of France for her son-in-law, Charles VII.

Elizabeth I's Foreign Correspondence

Elizabeth I's Foreign Correspondence
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 285
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ISBN-10 : 9781137448415
ISBN-13 : 1137448415
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Elizabeth I's Foreign Correspondence by : C. Bajetta

Though Elizabeth I never left England, she wrote extensively to correspondents abroad, and these letters were of central importance to the politics of the period. This volume presents the findings of a major international research project on this correspondence, including newly edited translations of 15 of Elizabeth's letters in foreign languages.

Titled Elizabethans

Titled Elizabethans
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 343
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ISBN-10 : 9781137461483
ISBN-13 : 1137461489
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Titled Elizabethans by : A. Kinney

Published over forty years ago, the original edition of Titled Elizabethans provided a ready reference source to Elizabethan court, state, and household. This long-awaited revised edition expands considerably upon the original, adding new categories and a host of previously overlooked figures.

Queenship and Revolution in Early Modern Europe

Queenship and Revolution in Early Modern Europe
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 462
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ISBN-10 : 9781137491688
ISBN-13 : 113749168X
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Queenship and Revolution in Early Modern Europe by : Carolyn Harris

Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I of England were two of the most notorious queens in European history. They both faced accusations that they had transgressed social, gender and regional norms, and attempted to defend themselves against negative reactions to their behavior. Each queen engaged with the debates of her time concerning the place of women within their families, religion, politics, the public sphere and court culture and attempted to counter criticism of her foreign origins and political influence. The impeachment of Henrietta Maria in 1643 and trial and execution of Marie Antoinette in 1793 were also trials of monarchical government that shaped the English Civil Wars and French Revolution.

Queenship in the Mediterranean

Queenship in the Mediterranean
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 458
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ISBN-10 : 9781137362834
ISBN-13 : 1137362839
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Queenship in the Mediterranean by : E. Woodacre

This groundbreaking collection explores the key roles that Mediterranean queens played as wives, as mothers, and above all as political actors. Ranging from Byzantine empresses to regnants and consorts in the Italian peninsula, they offer a bracing new perspective on queenship in the medieval and Early Modern eras.

As You Law It - Negotiating Shakespeare

As You Law It - Negotiating Shakespeare
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 9783110591514
ISBN-13 : 3110591510
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis As You Law It - Negotiating Shakespeare by : Daniela Carpi

Shakespeare was fascinated by law, which permeated Elizabethan everyday life. The general impression one derives from the analysis of many plays by Shakespeare is that of a legal situation in transformation and of a dynamically changing relation between law and society, law and the jurisdiction of Renaissance times. Shakespeare provides the kind of literary supplement that can better illustrate the legal texts of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. There was a strong popular participation in the system of justice, and late sixteenth-century playwrights often made use of forensic models of narrative. Uncertainty about legal issues represented a rich potential for causing strong reactions in the public, especially feelings concerning the resistance to tyranny. The volume aims at highlighting some of the many legal perspectives and debates emplotted in Shakespearean plays, also taking into consideration the many texts that have been produced during the latest years on law and literature in the Renaissance.