Women at the Early Modern Swedish Court : : Power, Risk, and Opportunity / / Fabian Persson.
What was it possible for a woman to achieve at an early modern court? By analysing the experiences of a wide range of women at the court of Sweden, this book demonstrates the opportunities open to women who served at, and interacted with, the court; the complexities of women's agency in a court...
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (340 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Note on names
- Dramatis personae
- Genealogical charts
- Introduction: Women living with power
- Outsiders
- 1. Rituals of royal compassion
- 2. Why be at court? The example of the Königsmarcks
- Insiders
- 3. All the Queen’s women
- 4. Noblewomen crossing borders
- 5. Servants of power
- 6. Left behind
- 7. Filth among the apples: Hierarchy and gender at court
- 8. A small circle with wide horizons
- 9. Fumbling for power: Being a royal mistress
- Royals
- 10. The performance of a lifetime: Being Queen Consort
- 11. The winding road: Royal marriage negotiations
- 12. The broken mirror: Gender differences in the system of royal apartments
- 13. Death and beyond
- 14. The court as substitute family
- 15. Epilogue
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index