Sartorial Politics in Early Modern Europe : : Fashioning Women /

Sartorial Politics in Early Modern Europe : : Fashioning Women / / ed. by Erin Griffey.

For women at the early modern courts, clothing and jewellery were essential elements in their political arsenal, enabling them to signal their dynastic value, to promote loyalty to their marital court and to advance political agendas. This is the first collection of essays to examine how elite women...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Claxton, Juliet,
Cockram, Sarah,
Field, Jemma,
Frieling, Kirsten O.,
Griffey, Erin,
Hayward, Maria,
Holm, Julia,
Lublin, Robert I.,
Mansfield, Lisa,
Oliván-Santaliestra, Laura,
Paresys, Isabelle,
Vincent, Susan,
Welch, Evelyn,
HerausgeberIn:
Griffey, Erin,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Visual and Material Culture, 1300 -1700 ; 12
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 78
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Isabella d'Este's Sartorial Politics
  • 2. Dressing the Queen at the French Renaissance Court: Sartorial Politics
  • 3. Dressing the Bride: Weddings and Fashion Practices at German Princely Courts in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
  • 4. Lustrous Virtue: Eleanor of Austria's Jewels and Gems as Composite Cultural Identity and Affective Maternal Agency
  • 5. Queen Elizabeth: Studded with Costly Jewels
  • 6. A 'Cipher of A and C set on the one Syde with diamonds': Anna of Denmark's Jewellery and the Politics of Dynastic Display
  • 7. 'She bears a duke's revenues on her back': Fashioning Shakespeare's Women at Court
  • 8. How to Dress a Female King: Manifestations of Gender and Power in the Wardrobe of Christina of Sweden
  • 9. Clothes Make the Queen: Mariana of Austria's Style of Dress, from Archduchess to Queen Consort (1634-1665)
  • 10. 'The best of Queens, the most obedient wife': Fashioning a Place for Catherine of Braganza as Consort to Charles II
  • 11. Chintz, China, and Chocolate: The Politics of Fashion at Charles II's Court
  • 12. Henrietta Maria and the Politics of Widows' Dress at the Stuart Court
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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