Servants of the dynasty : palace women in world history /

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Mothers, wives, concubines, entertainers, attendants, officials, maids, drudges. By offering the first comparative view of the women who lived, worked, and served in royal courts around the globe, this work opens a new perspective on the monarchies that have dominated much of human history. Written...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Walthall, Anne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008.
Colección:California world history library ; 7.
Temas:
Courtesans > History.
Courts and courtiers > History.
Ladies-in-waiting > History.
Favorites, Royal > History.
Harems > History.
Courtisanes > Histoire.
Cours et courtisans > Histoire.
Dames d'honneur > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Marriage & Family.
HISTORY > World.
Courtesans
Courts and courtiers
Favorites, Royal
Harems
Ladies-in-waiting
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Women and the performance of power in early modern Southeast Asia / Barbara Watson Andaya
  • Women in classic Maya royal courts / Takeshi Inomata
  • Women and power at the Byzantine court / Kathryn M. Ringrose
  • Beyond harem walls : Ottoman royal women and the exercise of power / Leslie P. Peirce
  • Mughal palace women / Ruby Lal
  • Politics in an African royal harem : women and seclusion at the royal court of Benin, Nigeria / Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan
  • Qing imperial women : empresses, concubines, and Aisin Gioro daughters / Shuo Wang
  • Royal women of Ivan IV's family and the meaning of forced tonsure / Isolde Thyrêt
  • Servants of the inner quarters : the women of the Shogun's Great Interior / Hata Hisako
  • Women of Versailles, 1682-1789 / Kathryn Norberg
  • Concubines and cloth : women and weaving in Aztec palaces and colonial Mexico / Susan Toby Evans
  • Women, royalty, and indigo dyeing in Northern Nigeria, circa 1500-1807 / Heidi J. Nast
  • Gender and entertainment at the Song court / Beverly Bossler
  • Vanished women of Korea : the anonymity of texts and the historicity of subjects / JaHyun Kim Haboush
  • Perils of the sentimental family for royalty in postrevolutionary France : the case of Queen Marie-Amélie / Jo Burr Margadant.

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