Women and Power at the French Court, 1483-1563 /

Women and Power at the French Court, 1483-1563 /

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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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Main Author: Broomhall, Susan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Amsterdam University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
France.
France > Court and courtiers > History > 16th century.
France > Court and courtiers > History > 15th century.
Women > Social conditions.
Courts and courtiers.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Femmes > France > Conditions sociales > 16e siecle.
Femmes > France > Conditions sociales > 15e siecle.
Women > France > Social conditions > 16th century.
Women > France > Social conditions > 15th century.
History.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. I Conceptualizing and Practicing Female Power
  • 1. The Political, Symbolic, and Courtly Power of Anne de France and Louise de Savoie
  • From the Genesis to the Glory of Female Regency / Aubree David-Chapy
  • 2. Anne de France and Gift-Giving
  • The Exercise of Female Power / Tracy Adams
  • 3. Louise de Savoie
  • The King's Mother, Alter Rex / Mary Beth Winn
  • pt. II Centers and Peripheries of Power
  • 4. Literary Lessons in Queenship and Power
  • Mary Tudor Brandon and the Authority of the Ambassador-Queen / Erin A. Sadlack
  • 5. Claude de France and the Spaces of Agency of a Marginalized Queen / Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier
  • 6. Portraits of Eleanor of Austria
  • From Invisible to Inimitable French Queen Consort / Lisa Mansfield
  • pt. III The Power of Creative Voices
  • 7. Family Female Networking in Early Sixteenth-Century France
  • The Power of Text and Image / Cynthia J. Brown
  • 8. The Power of Reputation and Skills according to Anne de Graville
  • The Rondeaux and the Denunciation of Slander / Mawy Bouchard
  • 9. Imagination and Influence
  • The Creative Powers of Marguerite de Navarre at Work at Court and in the World / Jonathan A. Reid
  • 10. Power through Print
  • The Works of Helisenne de Crenne / Pollie Bromilow
  • pt. IV Economies of Power and Emotions
  • 11. The Life and After-Life of a Royal Mistress
  • Anne de Pisseleu, Duchess of Etampes / David Potter
  • 12.`The King and I'
  • Rhetorics of Power in the Letters of Diane de Poitiers / Susan Broomhall
  • 13. Catherine de Medicis Tested by the Virtue of Charity (1533
  • 1559)
  • Discourse and Metadiscourse / Denis Crouzet.

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