Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Dunn, Caroline (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Carney, Elizabeth (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Queenship and Power
• Θέματα: Europe-History.; Imperialism.; Women.; Civilization-History.; European History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; Women's Studies.; Cultural History.

Royal women did much more to wield power besides marrying the king and producing the heir. Subverting the dichotomies of public/private and formal/informal that gender public authority as male and informal authority as female, this book examines royal women as agents of influence. With an expansive...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Kings' Daughters, Sisters, and Wives: Fonts and Conduits of Power and Legitimacy
• 3. From Family to Politics: Queen Apollonis as Agent of Dynastic/Political Loyalty
• 4. Queens and their Children: Dynastic Dis/loyalty in the Hellenistic Period
• 5. On the Alleged Treachery of Julia Domna and Septimius Severus' Failed Siege of Hatra
• 6. "In Protection of Our Own Interests We Rebel."
• 7. Prince Pedro: A Case of Dynastic Disloyalty in 15th century Portugal?
• 8. Dynastic Loyalty and the 'Queenships' of Mary Queen of Scots
• 9. Embodied Devotion: The Dynastic and Religious Loyalty of Renée de France (1510-1575)
• 10. Visual Propaganda and Ritual at the Early Stuart Court in England
• 11. Dynastic Loyalty and Allegiances: Ottoman Resilience during the Global Seventeenth Century Crisis
• 12. For Empire or Dynasty? Empress Elisabeth Christine and the Brunswicks
• 13. French Historians' Loyalty and Disloyalty to French Monarchy between 1815 and 1848.