The Face Of Queenship

Author : A. Riehl
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230106741

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The Face of Queenship by A. Riehl Pdf

The Face of Queenship investigates the aesthetic, political, and gender-related meanings in representations of Elizabeth I by her contemporaries. By attending to eyewitness reports, poetry, portraiture, and discourses on beauty and cosmetics, this book shows how the portrayals of the queen s face register her contemporaries hopes, fears, hatreds, mockeries, rivalries, and awe. In its application of theories of the meaning of the face and its exploration of the early modern representation and interpretation of faces, this study argues that the face was seen as a rhetorical tool and that Elizabeth was a master of using her face to persuade, threaten, or comfort her subjects.

Author : Anna Riehl Bertolet
Publisher : Springer
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319640488

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Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies by Anna Riehl Bertolet Pdf

The essays in this book traverse two centuries of queens and their afterlives—historical, mythological, and literary. They speak of the significant and subtle ways that queens leave their mark on the culture they inhabit, focusing on gender, marriage, national identity, diplomacy, and representations of queens in literature. Elizabeth I looms large in this volume, but the interrogation of queenship extends from Elizabeth's historical counterparts, such as Anne Boleyn and Catherine de Medici, to her fictional echoes in the pages of John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Mary Wroth, John Milton, and Margaret Cavendish. Celebrating and building on the renowned scholarship of Carole Levin, Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies exemplifies a range of innovative approaches to examining women and power in the early modern period.

Author : Carole Levin,Charles Beem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:866748691

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Queenship and Power by Carole Levin,Charles Beem Pdf

Author : I. Bell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230107861

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Elizabeth I by I. Bell Pdf

This groundbreaking book combines literary interpretation, gender analysis, and cultural, political, and diplomatic history to examine how Elizabeth I used the discourse of love to establish her political power, assert her right to marry or not, and rule the country herself either way.

Author : C. Bajetta,G. Coatalen,J. Gibson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137448415

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Elizabeth I's Foreign Correspondence by C. Bajetta,G. Coatalen,J. Gibson Pdf

Though Elizabeth I never left England, she wrote extensively to correspondents abroad, and these letters were of central importance to the politics of the period. This volume presents the findings of a major international research project on this correspondence, including newly edited translations of 15 of Elizabeth's letters in foreign languages.

Author : Kavita Mudan Finn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230392991

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The Last Plantagenet Consorts by Kavita Mudan Finn Pdf

An examination of fifteenth-century British queens through literature and history.

Author : C. Beem,D. Moore
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137272027

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The Name of a Queen by C. Beem,D. Moore Pdf

Itinerarium ad Windsor concerns a central question of the Elizabethan era: Why should a woman be allowed to rule with the same powers as a king? The man who poses this controversial question within Itinerarium is none other than Queen Elizabeth's powerful favorite Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. On hand to provide answers are the statesman and poet Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, and William Fleetwood antiquary, Recorder of London, and dutiful chronicler of their 1575 conversation. This critical edition of Itinerarium reproduces Fleetwood's text with annotations and a host of interpretive and contextualizing essays from leading scholars. Taken together, they constitute the definitive introduction to this remarkable discussion of regnant queenship, providing a valuable tool for understanding contemporary notions of and underlying fears concerning the efficacy and desirability of female rule in Elizabethan England.

Author : R. Warnicke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230391932

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Wicked Women of Tudor England by R. Warnicke Pdf

This fascinating study delves into the lives of six Tudor women celebrated for their reputed wickedness. Collected here are accounts of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, Anne Seymour, Lettice Dudley, and Jane and Alice More. Warnicke rescues these women from historical misrepresentations and helps us to rediscover the complex world of Tudor society.

Author : C. Loomis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230112131

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The Death of Elizabeth I by C. Loomis Pdf

The death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603 was greeted by an outpouring of official proclamations, gossip-filled letters, tense diary entries, diplomatic dispatches, and somber sermons. English poets wrote hundreds of elegies to Elizabeth, and playwrights began bringing her onto the stage. This book uses these historical and literary sources, including a maid of honor's eyewitness account of the explosion of the Queen's corpse, to provide a detailed history of Elizabeth's final illness and death, and to show Elizabeth's subjects - peers and poets, bishops and beggars, women and men - responding to their loss by remembering and reconstructing their Queen.

Author : Carole Levin,Christine Stewart-Nuñez
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137534903

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Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens by Carole Levin,Christine Stewart-Nuñez Pdf

Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens is a lively and erudite collection, unusual in an especially appealing way. This collection of essays shows how queens were represented in the Middle Ages and Renaissance through primary accounts, chronicles, and literary representations. The book also contains modern poetry and short plays about these same queens, allowing readers to understand and appreciate them both intellectually and emotionally. Contributors study a wide range of queens including such famous and fascinating women as Queen Elizabeth I, Cleopatra, Hecuba, the Empress Matilda, Mary Stuart, Margaret of Anjou, Catherine of Aragon, and the pirate queen Grace O'Malley. By pairing scholarly essays with contemporary poems about them, the collection demonstrates the continued relevance and immediacy of these powerful and fascinating women.

Author : Zita Eva Rohr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137499134

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Yolande of Aragon (1381-1442) Family and Power by Zita Eva Rohr Pdf

Yolande of Aragon is one of the most intriguing of late medieval queens who contrived to be everywhere and nowhere, operating seamlessly from backstage and center stage. She is acknowledged as having been shrewd and intelligent - an éminence grise whose political and diplomatic agency secured the throne of France for her son-in-law, Charles VII.

Author : Valerie Schutte
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137541284

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Mary I and the Art of Book Dedications by Valerie Schutte Pdf

In this revisionist approach to book history and Marian studies Valerie Schutte argues that manuscript and printed book dedications reveal contemporary perceptions of statecraft, religion, and gender. She offers the first comprehensive catalogue of all book and manuscript dedications to Mary and all books known to have been in Mary's possession.

Author : Derval Conroy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137568489

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Ruling Women, Volume 2 by Derval Conroy Pdf

Ruling Women is a two-volume study devoted to an analysis of the conflicting discourses concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. In this second volume, Configuring the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century French Drama, Conroy analyzes over 30 plays published between 1637 and 1691, examining the range of constructions of queenship that are thrown into relief. The analysis focuses on the ways in which certain texts strive to manage the cultural anxiety produced by female rule and facilitate the diminution of the uneasy cultural reality it represents, while others dramatize the exercise of political virtue by women, explode the myth of gender-differentiated sexual ethics, and suggest alternative constructions of gender relations to those upheld by the normative discourses of sexual difference. The approach is underpinned by an understanding of theatre as fundamentally political, a cultural institution implicated in the maintenance of, and challenge to, societal power relations. Innovative and stimulating, Conroy’s work will appeal to scholars of seventeenth-century drama and history of ideas, in addition to those interested in the history of women in political thought and the history of feminism.

Author : E. Sadlack
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230118560

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The French Queen’s Letters by E. Sadlack Pdf

A fresh biography of Mary Tudor which challenges conventional views of her as a weeping hysteric and love-struck romantic, providing instead the portrait of a queen who drew on two sources of authority to increase the power of her position: epistolary conventions and the rhetoric of chivalry that imbued the French and English courts.

Author : A. Hunt,A. Whitelock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230111950

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Tudor Queenship by A. Hunt,A. Whitelock Pdf

This book brings together a selection of recent, cutting-edge research which, for the first time, challenges commonplace arguments about Mary and Elizabeth's relative successes or failures in order to rethink Tudor queenship.