Women and Power at the French Court, 1483-1563 / edited by Susan Broomhall.
This book explores the ways in which a range of women-as consorts, regents, mistresses, factional power players, attendants at court, or as objects of courtly patronage-wielded power in order to advance individual, familial, and factional agendas in the early sixteenth-century French court. Spring b...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Gendering the late medieval and early modern world.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (385 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- In the Orbit of the King / Broomhall, Susan
- Part I: Conceptualizing and Practicing Female Power
- 1. The Political, Symbolic, and Courtly Power of Anne de France and Louise de Savoie / Chapy, Aubrée David-
- 2. Anne de France and Gift-Giving / Adams, Tracy
- 3. Louise de Savoie / Fagnart, Laure / Winn, Mary Beth
- Part II: Centers and Peripheries of Power
- 4. Literary Lessons in Queenship and Power / Sadlack, Erin A.
- 5. Claude de France and the Spaces of Agency of a Marginalized Queen / Chevalier, Kathleen Wilson-
- 6. Portraits of Eleanor of Austria / Mansfield, Lisa
- Part III: The Power of Creative Voices
- 7. Family Female Networking in Early Sixteenth-Century France / Brown, Cynthia J.
- 8. The Power of Reputation and Skills according to Anne de Graville / Bouchard, Mawy
- 9. Imagination and Influence / Reid, Jonathan A.
- 10. Power through Print / Bromilow, Pollie
- Part IV: Economies of Power and Emotions
- 11. The Life and After-Life of a Royal Mistress / Potter, David
- 12. 'The King and I' / Broomhall, Susan
- 13. Catherine de Médicis Tested by the Virtue of Charity (1533-1559) / Crouzet, Denis
- Index