Télécharger le livre :  Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies
The essays in this book traverse two centuries of queens and their afterlives—historical, mythological, and literary. They speak of the significant and subtle ways that queens leave their mark on the culture they inhabit, focusing on gender, marriage, national identity,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Unexpected Heirs in Early Modern Europe
There were many surprising accessions in the early modern period, including Mary I of England, Henry III of France, Anne Stuart, and others, but this is the first book dedicated solely to evaluating their lives and the repercussions of their reigns. By comparing a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria
This book examines how early Stuart queens navigated their roles as political players and artistic patrons in a culture deeply conflicted about the legitimacy of female authority. Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria both employed powerful female archetypes such as...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Elizabeth of York and Her Six Daughters-in-Law
This study of early modern queenship compares the reign of Henry VII’s queen, Elizabeth of York, and those of her daughters-in-law, the six queens of Henry VIII. It defines the traditional expectations for effective Tudor queens—particularly the queen’s critical...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-09-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe
This collection brings together essays examining the international influence of queens, other female rulers, and their representatives from 1450 through 1700, an era of expanding colonial activity and sea trade. As Europe rose in prominence geopolitically, a number of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-08-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Diary of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, 1781-1785
This work offers a new portrayal of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples as a woman of power with weaknesses and ambitions, and analyzes the Queen's actions, from her political choices to her alliance and betrayals. A careful examination of the period (1781-1785) covered by...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-11-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Queenship, Gender, and Reputation in the Medieval and Early Modern West, 1060-1600
This edited collection opens new ways to look at queenship in areas and countries not usually studied and reflects the increasingly interdisciplinary work and geographic range of the field.This book is a forerunner in queenship and re-invents the reputations of the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-10-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Elizabeth I's Foreign Correspondence
Though Elizabeth I never left England, she wrote extensively to correspondents abroad, and these letters were of central importance to the politics of the period. This volume presents the findings of a major international research project on this correspondence,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-04-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Berenice II Euergetis
Berenice II Euergetis (267/6-221 BCE), the daughter of King Magas of Cyrene (Libya) and wife of King Ptolemy III of Egypt, was queen at an important juncture in Hellenistic history. This collection of four essays focuses on aspects of chronology, genealogy and marital...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-02-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Ruling Women, Volume 1
Ruling Women is the first study of its kind devoted to an analysis of the debate concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. Drawing on a wide range of political, feminist and dramatic texts, Conroy sets out to demonstrate that the dominant discourse...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Ruling Women, Volume 2
Ruling Women is a two-volume study devoted to an analysis of the conflicting discourses concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. In this second volume, Configuring the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century French Drama, Conroy analyzes over 30 plays...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Elizabeth I
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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens
Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens is a lively and erudite collection, unusual in an especially appealing way. This collection of essays shows how queens were represented in the Middle Ages and Renaissance through primary accounts, chronicles, and literary...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-08-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The Man behind the Queen
From the 14th-century king consorts of Navarre to the modern European prince consorts of the 20th century, the male consort has been a peculiar yet recurrent historical figure. In this impressively broad collection, leading historians of monarchy analyze how male...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-12-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Titled Elizabethans
Published over forty years ago, the original edition of Titled Elizabethans provided a ready reference source to Elizabethan court, state, and household. This long-awaited revised edition expands considerably upon the original, adding new categories and a host of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-10-23
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Télécharger le livre :  The Queen's Mercy
During the Elizabethan era, writers such as Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Daniel, and others frequently expounded on mercy, exploring the sources and outcomes of clemency. This fresh reading of such depictions shows that the concept of mercy was a contested one,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-07-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Queenship in the Mediterranean
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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-12-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The Queens Regnant of Navarre
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,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-09-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Emblematic Queen
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.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-05-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The Name of a Queen
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 withinItinerarium is none other than Queen Elizabeth's powerful favorite Robert...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-04-17
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