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Women at the early modern Swedish court : power, risk, and opportunity /
What was possible for a woman to achieve at an early modern court? By analysing the experiences of a wide range of women at the court of Sweden, this book demonstrates the opportunities open to women who served at, and interacted with, the court; the complexities of women's agency in a court so...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Gendering the late medieval and early modern world ;
14. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A Swedish Artemisia manquee
- Commemorating a dynasty
- Dynastic memory
- 14. The court as substitute family
- The Princess, her sister and the need for trust
- A court of her own
- Court rather than family
- A long-lost sister
- The entertaining princess
- 15. Epilogue
- Glossary
- Court positions
- Abbreviations
- Coinage
- The calendar
- Bibliography
- Manuscript sources
- Published sources
- Index
- List of illustrations
- The extraordinary success of Karin Månsdotter
- Pimped to a king
- The role of a royal mistress
- Royals
- 10. The performance of a lifetime: Being Queen Consort
- Being foreign
- Being sociable
- Being self-assured
- Being a success
- 11. The winding road: Royal marriage negotiations
- A queen's worth
- How to pick a marriage partner
- Successful failures
- 12. The broken mirror: Gender differences in the system of royal apartments
- Mirroring apartments
- Royal apartments outside Stockholm
- Renovations
- A mirror cracked
- In-built gender
- 13. Death and beyond
- Ageing and unmarried
- 7. Filth among the apples: Hierarchy and gender at court
- A Swedish Table of Ranks
- Formal hierarchies
- Royal decisiveness
- Increasing formality
- Marks of status
- Negotiating the hierarchy
- 8. A small circle with wide horizons
- Living under surveillance
- Socialised into a group
- Widening interests and attitudes
- Changes in appearance
- The best school in the world
- 9. Fumbling for power: Being a royal mistress
- A golden age of adultery
- A passing fancy
- An emotional anchor
- A lesser sort of marriage
- Pay and perquisites
- Marriage
- The appeal of the court
- 4. Noblewomen crossing borders
- Change over time
- Princely women visiting and residing in Sweden
- Swedish noblewomen in service abroad
- Clean break or gradual erosion?
- From melting pot to enclave
- 5. Servants of power
- Everyday power
- and more
- Maids of Honour as power brokers
- Everyday power
- and high politics
- Power struggles on several levels
- Emerentia Düben
- Juliana Schierberg
- Anna Catharina Bärfelt
- Measures of success
- 6. Left behind
- Reputational damage
- Beata Sophia Horn, trapped at court
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Genealogical charts
- Dramatis personae
- Note on names
- Acknowledgements
- List of illustrations
- Introduction: Women living with power
- Opportunities
- Growing interest
- Sources and the challenge of invisibility
- Outsiders
- 1. Rituals of royal compassion
- Who and when
- Institutionalisation
- The quality of compassion
- 2. Why be at court? The example of the Königsmarcks
- Insiders
- 3. All the Queen's women
- The creation of the Swedish court in the sixteenth century
- The women in service
- The recruitment process