Gender, power and identity in the early modern House of Orange-Nassau / Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broomhall, Susan, author.

Van Gent, Jacqueline, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orange-Nassau, House of--History.

Orange-Nassau, House of.

Royal households--Netherlands--Case studies.

Royal households.

Women--Netherlands--Case studies.

Women.

Sex role--Netherlands--Case studies.

Sex role.

Power (Social sciences)--Netherlands--Case studies.

Power (Social sciences).

Identity (Psychology)--Netherlands--Case studies.

Identity (Psychology).

History.

Netherlands--History--1648-1795.

Netherlands.

Genre:

Case studies.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 279, 32 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

"How do gender and power relationships affect the expression of family, House and dynastic identities? The present study explores this question using a case study of the House of Orange-Nassau, whose extensive visual, material and archival sources from both male and female members enable us to trace their complex attempts to express, gain and maintain power: in texts, material culture, and spaces, as well as rituals, acts and practices. The book adopts several innovative approaches to the history of the Nassau-Orange family, and to familial and dynastic studies generally. Firstly, the authors analyse in detail a vast body of previously unexplored sources, including correspondence, artwork, architectural, horticultural and textual commissions, ceremonies, practices and individual actions that have, surprisingly, received little attention to date individually, and consider these as the collective practices of a key early modern dynastic family. They investigate new avenues about the meanings and practices of family and dynasty in the early modern period, extending current research that focuses on dominant men to ask how women and subordinate men understood 'family' and 'dynasty', in what respects such notions were shared among members, and how it might have been fractured and fashioned by individual experiences"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

FAMILIAR STRUCTURES, HIERARCHIES AND POWER. Leadership, governance and complicit roles

Horizontal, vertical and dynastic alliances

TRANSITIONS. Born Orange, made Orange : children in the House of Orange-Nassau

Love and marriage : individual, house and dynasty

Conversion : choices, conflicts, consequences

Death and dynasty : sacrifice, intimacy and individuality

Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-269) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Broomhall, Susan, author. Gender, power and identity in the early modern House of Orange-Nassau

ISBN:

9781409451464

1409451461

OCLC:

958480691