The Body of the Queen : : Gender and Rule in the Courtly World, 1500-2000 / / ed. by Regina Schulte.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bepler, Jill,; Breger, Claudia,; Brice, Catherine,; Frye, Susan,; Kohlrausch, Martin,; Montrose, Louis,; Schulte, Regina,; Schwarzenbach, Alexis,; Sykora, Katharina,; Vogel, Juliane,; Weil, Rachel,; Weisbrod, Bernd,; Wenzel, Horst,; Zanger, Abby E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Schulte, Regina,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

How many “bodies” does a queen have? What is the significance of multiple “bodies”? How has the gendered body been constructed and perceived within the context of the European courts during the course of the past five centuries? These are some of the questions addressed in this anthology, a contribu...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Foreword
• List of Contributors
• 1. Introduction
• Part I. Constructing the Body Politic
• 2. How Two Ladies Steal a Crown
• 3. Elizabeth When a Princess
• 4. Elizabeth through the Looking Glass
• 5. Royal Flesh, Gender and the Construction of Monarchy
• Part II. Transgressing the Body Natural
• 6. What the King Saw in the Belly of the Beast or How the 103 Lion Got in the Queen
• 7. Posterity and the Body of the Princess in German Court 125 Funeral Books
• 8 ‘Madame, Ma Chère Fille’ – ‘Dearest Child’
• Part III. Queens of Modernity
• 9. Queen Margherita (1851–1926)
• 10. The Double Skin
• 11. Theatrical Monarchy
• 12. The Unmanly Emperor
• Part IV. Visual Metamorphoses
• 13. The ‘Berlin’ Nefertiti Bust
• 14. Imagined Queens between Heaven and Hell
• 15. Queer Queen
• Selected Bibliography
• Index