Women and power at the French court, 1483-1563 / edited by Susan Broomhall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marilyn Kramer Weitzman Fund.

Broomhall, Susan, editor.

Series:

Gendering the late medieval and early modern world ; 4.

Gendering the late medieval and early modern world ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women.

Social conditions.

Courts and courtiers.

History.

France--Court and courtiers--History--15th century.

France.

France--Court and courtiers--History--16th century.

Women--France--Social conditions--15th century.

Women--France--Social conditions--16th century.

Women--Social conditions.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

384 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]

Summary:

Women and Power at the French Court, 1483-1563 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 at the early sixteenth-century French court. Spring-boarding from the burgeoning scholarship of gender, the political, and power in early modern Europe, the collection provides a perspective from the French court, from the reigns of Charles VIII to Henri II, a time when the French court was a renowned center of culture and at which women played important roles. Crossdisciplinary in its perspectives, these essays by historians, art and literary scholars investigate the dynamic operations of gendered power in political acts, recognized status as queens and regents, ritualized behaviors such as gift-giving, educational coteries, and through social networking, literary and artistic patronage, female authorship, and epistolary strategies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Marilyn Kramer Weitzman Fund.

ISBN:

9462983429

9789462983427

OCLC:

1045203763