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The Politics of Female Households : Ladies-in-Waiting Across Early Modern Europe /
This multi-disciplinary collection of essays is the first cohesive attempt to integrate ladies-in-waiting into the master narrative of court studies. It provides evidence for the multitudinous ways in which 'women above stairs' influenced the politics and culture of their times.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2014.
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| Colección: | Rulers & elites ;
v. 4. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Tudor England.
- Petticoats and politics: Elisabeth Parr and female agency at the early Elizabethan court / Helen Graham-Matheson
- Jane Dormer's recipe for politics: a refuge household in Spain for Mary Tudor's ladies-in-waiting / Hannah Leah Crumme
- Habsburgs.
- The imperial court in Vienna.
- Ladies-in-waiting at the imperial court of Vienna from 1550 to 1700: structures, responsibilities and career patterns / Katrin Keller
- "In service to my lady, the empress, as I have done every other day of my life": Margarita of Cardona, Baroness of Dietrichstein and lady-in-waiting of Maria of Austria / Vanessa de Cruz Medina
- The court in the Spanish Netherlands.
- Women and the politics of access at the court of Brussels: The infanta Isabella's camareras mayores (1598-1633) / Birgit Houben and Dries Raeymaekers
- Dwarfs-and a loca-as ladies' maids at the Spanish Habsburg courts / Janet Ravenscroft
- France.
- 'A stable of whores'? the 'flying squadron' of Catherine de Medici / Una McIlvenna
- In search of the ladies-in-waiting and maids of honour of Mary, Queen of Scots: a prosoprographical analysis of the female household / Rosalind K. Marshall
- Clients and friends: the ladies-in-waiting at the court of Anne of Austria (1615-66) / Oliver Mallick
- The Stuart courts.
- Perceptions of influence: the Catholic diplomacy of Queen Anna and her ladies, 1601-1604 / Cynthia Fry
- The goddess of the household: the masquing politics of Lucy Harington-Russell, Countess of Bedford / Nadine Akkerman
- The female bedchamber of Queen Henrietta Maria: politics familial networks and policy, 1626-40 / Sara J. Wolfson
- The Swedish court.
- Living in the house of power: women at the early modern Swedish court / Fabian Persson
- Epilogue the politics of female households: afterthoughts / Jeroen Duindam.