Télécharger le livre :  The Birth of a Queen
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Marking the 500th year anniversary of the birth of Queen Mary I in 1516, this book both commemorates her rule and rehabilitates and redefines her image and reign as England's first queen regnant. In this broad collection of essays, leading historians of queenship (or...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-08-29
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Virtuous or Villainess? The Image of the Royal Mother from the Early Medieval to the Early Modern Era
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This collection addresses royal motherhood across Europe, from both the medieval and Early Modern periods, including (in)famous and not-so-famous royal mothers. The essays in this collection reveal the complexities and the subtleties inherent in the role of royal...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-07-14
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Elizabeth I's Foreign Correspondence
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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
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Berenice II Euergetis
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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
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Ruling Women, Volume 1
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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
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Ruling Women, Volume 2
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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
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Queenship and Revolution in Early Modern Europe
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Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI of France andQueen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I of England were two of the most notorious queens in European history. They both faced accusations that they had transgressed social, gender and regional norms, and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-26
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Elizabeth I
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-18
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens
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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
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  The Man behind the Queen
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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
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Titled Elizabethans
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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
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  The Queen's Mercy
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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
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Queenship in the Mediterranean
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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...

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

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

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

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-04-17
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Mother Queens and Princely Sons
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-10-15
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Fairy Tale Queens
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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,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-09-14
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  The Last Plantagenet Consorts
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An examination of fifteenth-century British queens through literature and history.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-06-08
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Mary I
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-06-04
Collection : Queenship and Power
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