Women at the Early Modern Swedish Court : Power, Risk, and Opportunity /

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Autor principal: Persson, Fabian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women > Sweden > Social conditions.
Women > Sweden > History.
Sweden > Court and courtiers > History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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