Becoming a Queen in Early Modern Europe East and West /

• Main Author: Kosior, Katarzyna (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Queenship and Power
• Subjects: Europe-History-1492-.; World history.; Russia-History.; Europe, Eastern-History.; France-History.; Women.; History of Early Modern Europe.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Russian, Soviet, and East European History.; History of France.; Women's Studies.

Queens of Poland are conspicuously absent from the study of European queenship-an absence which, together with early modern Poland's marginal place in the historiography, results in a picture of European royal culture that can only be lopsided and incomplete. Katarzyna Kosior cuts through persi...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: East and West
• 2. Royal Weddings: Protocol, Identity and Emotion
• 3. Coronation: Consort to Royal Power
• 4. Political Culture and the Rhetoric of Queenship
• 5. Conception, Childbirth, and Motherhood: Performing a Royal Family
• 6. Conclusion.