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Queenship and Counsel in Early Modern Europe
Av Helen Matheson-Pollock, Joanne Paul m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
1349 kr
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The discourse of political counsel in early modern Europe depended on the participation of men, as both counsellors and counselled. Women were often thought too irrational or imprudent to give or receive political advice—but they did in unprecedented numbers, as this volume shows. These essays …
Death of Elizabeth I
Remembering and Reconstructing the Virgin Queen
Av C. Loomis
Inbunden, 2010
632 kr
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The death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603 was greeted by an outpouring of official proclamations, gossip-filled letters, tense diary entries, diplomatic dispatches, and somber sermons. English poets wrote hundreds of elegies to Elizabeth, and playwrights began bringing her onto the stage. This book …
Queenship and Voice in Medieval Northern Europe
Av W. Layher
Inbunden, 2010
1126 kr
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This book examines female lordship and the power of the political voice in medieval Northern Europe, focusing on three prominent, foreign-born queens of medieval Scandinavia - Agnes of Denmark (d. 1304), Eufemia of Norway (d. 1312) and Margareta of Denmark/Sweden (d. 1412) - who acted as cultural …
Foreign Relations of Elizabeth I
Av C. Beem
Inbunden, 2011
566 kr
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This edited volume brings together a collection of provocative essays examining a number of different facets of Elizabethan foreign affairs, encompassing England and The British Isles, Europe, and the dynamic civilization of Islam. As an entirely domestic queen who never physically left her realm, …
Three Medieval Queens
Queenship and the Crown in Fourteenth-Century England
Inbunden, 2012
1349 kr
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This book is an innovative study offering the first examination of how three fourteenth-century English queens, Margaret of France, Isabella of France, and Philippa of Hainault, exercised power and authority. It frames its analysis around four major themes: gender; status; the concept of the crown; …
Queenship in Medieval Europe
Häftad, 2013
472 kr
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Medieval queens led richly complex lives and were highly visible women active in a man's world. Linked to kings by marriage, family, and property, queens were vital to the institution of monarchy.In this comprehensive and accessible introduction to the study of queenship, Theresa Earenfight …
Mary I
Gender, Power, and Ceremony in the Reign of England’s First Queen
Av S. Duncan
Inbunden, 2012
584 kr
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This book explores the gender politics of the reign of Mary I of England from her coronation to her funeral and examines the ways in which the queen and her supporters used language, royal ceremonies, and images to bolster her right to rule and define her image as queen.
Wicked Women of Tudor England
Queens, Aristocrats, Commoners
Av R. Warnicke
Inbunden, 2012
584 kr
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This fascinating study delves into the lives of six Tudor women celebrated for their reputed wickedness. Collected here are accounts of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, Anne Seymour, Lettice Dudley, and Jane and Alice More. Warnicke rescues these women from historical misrepresentations and helps us …
Last Plantagenet Consorts
Gender, Genre, and Historiography, 1440-1627
Av Kavita Mudan Finn, Kenneth A. Loparo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
566 kr
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An examination of fifteenth-century British queens through literature and history.
Lioness Roared
The Problems of Female Rule in English History
Av C. Beem
Häftad, 2008
622 kr
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Charles Beem uses Gender Studies and political and constitutional History to examine the problems faced by female rulers throughout British history, from the twelfth century Empress Matilda's imaginative efforts to become England's first regnant queen, to Queen Victoria's remarkable exercise of …
Face of Queenship
Early Modern Representations of Elizabeth I
Av A. Riehl
Inbunden, 2010
1126 kr
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The Face of Queenship investigates the aesthetic, political, and gender-related meanings in representations of Elizabeth I by her contemporaries. By attending to eyewitness reports, poetry, portraiture, and discourses on beauty and cosmetics, this book shows how the portrayals of the queen s face …
Learned Queen
The Image of Elizabeth I in Politics and Poetry
Av L. Shenk
Inbunden, 2010
632 kr
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The first book to examine Elizabeth I as a learned princess, Learned Queen examines Elizabeth's own demonstrations of erudition alongside literary works produced by such political luminaries as Sir Philip Sidney and Robert Devereux, earl of Essex.
Tudor Queenship
The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth
Av A. Hunt, A. Whitelock
Inbunden, 2010
1237 kr
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This book brings together a selection of recent, cutting-edge research which, for the first time, challenges commonplace arguments about Mary and Elizabeth's relative successes or failures in order to rethink Tudor queenship.
Elizabeth of York
Av A. Okerlund
Inbunden, 2009
584 kr
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This book tells the story of the queen whose marriage to King Henry VII ended England's Wars of the Roses and inaugurated the 118-year Tudor dynasty. Best known as the mother of Henry VIII and grandmother of Elizabeth I, this Queen Elizabeth contributed far beyond the act of giving birth to future …
French Queen’s Letters
Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Av E. Sadlack
Inbunden, 2011
632 kr
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A fresh biography of Mary Tudor which challenges conventional views of her as a weeping hysteric and love-struck romantic, providing instead the portrait of a queen who drew on two sources of authority to increase the power of her position: epistolary conventions and the rhetoric of chivalry that …
Elizabeth I
The Voice of a Monarch
Av I. Bell
Inbunden, 2010
566 kr
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This groundbreaking book combines literary interpretation, gender analysis, and cultural, political, and diplomatic history to examine how Elizabeth I used the discourse of love to establish her political power, assert her right to marry or not, and rule the country herself either way.
Elizabeth I
The Voice of a Monarch
Av I. Bell
Häftad, 2010
566 kr
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This groundbreaking book combines literary interpretation, gender analysis, and cultural, political, and diplomatic history to examine how Elizabeth I used the discourse of love to establish her political power, assert her right to marry or not, and rule the country herself either way.
High and Mighty Queens of Early Modern England
Realities and Representations
Av Carole Levin, D. Barrett-Graves m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
566 kr
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High and Mighty Queens of Early Modern England is a truly interdisciplinary anthology of essays including articles on such actual queen regnants as Mary I and Elizabeth I, and queen consorts such as Anne Boleyn, Anna of Denmark, and Henrietta Maria. The collection also deals with a number of …
Mother Queens and Princely Sons
Rogue Madonnas in the Age of Shakespeare
Av S. Ray
Inbunden, 2012
566 kr
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This study explores representations of the Madonna and Child in early modern culture. It considers the mother and son as a conceptual, religio-political unit and examines the ways in which that unit was embodied and performed. Of primary interest is the way mothers derived agency from bearing …
Queenship in Early Modern Europe
Av Charles Beem
E-bok, 2019
450 kr
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Offering a fascinating survey of European queenship from 1500-1800, with each chapter beginning with a discussion of the archetypal queens of Western, Central, Northern, and Eastern Europe, Charles Beem explores the particular nature of the regional forms and functions of queenship including …
Queenship in Early Modern Europe
Av Charles Beem
Häftad, 2019
414 kr
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Offering a fascinating survey of European queenship from 1500-1800, with each chapter beginning with a discussion of the archetypal queens of Western, Central, Northern, and Eastern Europe, Charles Beem explores the particular nature of the regional forms and functions of queenship – including …
Monarchy of Letters
Royal Correspondence and English Diplomacy in the Reign of Elizabeth I
Inbunden, 2012
1276 kr
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This book examines Elizabeth's correspondence with several significant rulers, analyzing how her letters were constructed, drafted and presented, the rhetorical strategies used, and the role these letters played in facilitating diplomatic relations.
Wicked Women of Tudor England
Queens, Aristocrats, Commoners
Av R. Warnicke
Häftad, 2012
584 kr
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This fascinating study delves into the lives of six Tudor women celebrated for their reputed wickedness. Collected here are accounts of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, Anne Seymour, Lettice Dudley, and Jane and Alice More. Warnicke rescues these women from historical misrepresentations and helps us …
Fairy Tale Queens
Representations of Early Modern Queenship
Av J. Carney
Inbunden, 2012
566 kr
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Most of today's familiar fairy tales come from the stories of Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen, but this innovative study encourages us to explore the marvelous tales of authors from the early modern period Giovanni Straparola, Giambattista Basile, Madame …
Name of a Queen
William Fleetwood's Itinerarium ad Windsor
Inbunden, 2013
566 kr
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Itinerarium ad Windsor concerns a central question of the Elizabethan era: Why should a woman be allowed to rule with the same powers as a king? The man who poses this controversial question within Itinerarium is none other than Queen Elizabeth's powerful favorite Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. …
Tudor Queenship
The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth
Av A. Hunt, A. Whitelock
Häftad, 2012
1237 kr
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This book brings together a selection of recent, cutting-edge research which, for the first time, challenges commonplace arguments about Mary and Elizabeth's relative successes or failures in order to rethink Tudor queenship.
Emblematic Queen
Extra-Literary Representations of Early Modern Queenship
Inbunden, 2013
566 kr
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This study examines representations of early modern female consorts and regnants via extra-literary emblematics such as paintings, jewelry, miniature portraits, carvings, placards, masques, funerary monuments, and imprese.
Queenship in Medieval Europe
E-bok, 2017
499 kr
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Medieval queens led richly complex lives and were highly visible women active in a man''s world. Linked to kings by marriage, family, and property, queens were vital to the institution of monarchy. In this comprehensive and accessible introduction to the study of queenship, Theresa Earenfight …
Queens Regnant of Navarre
Succession, Politics, and Partnership, 1274-1512
Inbunden, 2013
1461 kr
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The five queens of Navarre were the largest group of female sovereigns in one European realm during the Middle Ages, but they are largely unknown beyond a regional audience. This survey fills this scholarly lacuna, focusing particularly on issues of female succession, agency, and power-sharing …
Queenship in the Mediterranean
Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras
Av E. Woodacre
Inbunden, 2013
1349 kr
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This groundbreaking collection explores the key roles that Mediterranean queens played as wives, as mothers, and above all as political actors. Ranging from Byzantine empresses to regnants and consorts in the Italian peninsula, they offer a bracing new perspective on queenship in the medieval and …
