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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Adams, Tracy (Contribuidor), Bouchard, Mawy (Contribuidor), Bromilow, Pollie (Contribuidor), Broomhall, Susan (Contribuidor, Editor ), Brown, Cynthia J. (Contribuidor), Chapy, Aubrée David- (Contribuidor), Chevalier, Kathleen Wilson- (Contribuidor), Crouzet, Denis (Contribuidor), Fagnart, Laure (Contribuidor), Mansfield, Lisa (Contribuidor), Potter, David (Contribuidor), Reid, Jonathan A. (Contribuidor), Sadlack, Erin A. (Contribuidor), Winn, Mary Beth (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Colección:Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World ; 4
Temas:
Power (Social sciences) > France > History > 15th century.
Power (Social sciences) > France > History > 16th century.
Women > History > Renaissance, 1450-1600.
Women > France > History > 15th century.
Women > France > History > 16th century.
Women > France > Social conditions > 15th century.
Women > France > Social conditions > 16th century.
History, Art History, and Archaeology.
HISTORY / Europe / France.
Power, Women, Gender, France, Renaissance.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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)
  • Index

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