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Women and Power at the French Court, 1483—1563 explores the ways in which a range of women “ as consorts, regents, mistresses, factional power players, attendants at court, or as objects of courtly patronage “ wielded power in order to advance individual, familial, and factional agendas at the early...

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Έκδοση: Amsterdam University Press 2020
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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-233412024-03-22T19:23:42Z Women and Power at the French Court, 1483-1563 Broomhall, Susan History women thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day Women and Power at the French Court, 1483—1563 explores the ways in which a range of women “ as consorts, regents, mistresses, factional power players, attendants at court, or as objects of courtly patronage “ wielded power in order to advance individual, familial, and factional agendas at the early sixteenth-century French court. Spring-boarding from the burgeoning scholarship of gender, the political, and power in early modern Europe, the collection provides a perspective from the French court, from the reigns of Charles VIII to Henri II, a time when the French court was a renowned center of culture and at which women played important roles. Crossdisciplinary in its perspectives, these essays by historians, art and literary scholars investigate the dynamic operations of gendered power in political acts, recognized status as queens and regents, ritualized behaviors such as gift-giving, educational coteries, and through social networking, literary and artistic patronage, female authorship, and epistolary strategies. 2020-03-27 15:48:21 2020-04-01T09:12:31Z 2020-04-01T09:12:31Z 2018 book 1006814 9789462983427 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23341 eng Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern application/pdf n/a 9789048533404.pdf https://www.aup.nl/en/book/ Amsterdam University Press Pallas Publications 10.2307/j.ctv8pzd9w 10.2307/j.ctv8pzd9w dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a 9789462983427 Pallas Publications 4 487 Amsterdam open access
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description Women and Power at the French Court, 1483—1563 explores the ways in which a range of women “ as consorts, regents, mistresses, factional power players, attendants at court, or as objects of courtly patronage “ wielded power in order to advance individual, familial, and factional agendas at the early sixteenth-century French court. Spring-boarding from the burgeoning scholarship of gender, the political, and power in early modern Europe, the collection provides a perspective from the French court, from the reigns of Charles VIII to Henri II, a time when the French court was a renowned center of culture and at which women played important roles. Crossdisciplinary in its perspectives, these essays by historians, art and literary scholars investigate the dynamic operations of gendered power in political acts, recognized status as queens and regents, ritualized behaviors such as gift-giving, educational coteries, and through social networking, literary and artistic patronage, female authorship, and epistolary strategies.
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