Pleasure and politics at the Court of France : the artistic patronage of Queen Marie de Brabant (1260-1321) / Tracy Chapman Hamilton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamilton, Tracy Chapman, author.

Series:

Studies in medieval and early Renaissance art history ; 64.

[Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance art history ; 64]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marie de Brabant, Queen, consort of Philip III, King of France, 1254-1321.

Marie de Brabant.

Art, Medieval--France.

Art, Medieval.

History.

Art--Collectors and collecting.

France.

Art--Collectors and collecting--France--History--13th century.

Art.

Art, Medieval--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

323 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Turnhout : Harvey Miller Publishers, [2019]

Summary:

For her commissioning and performance of a French vernacular version of the Arabic Tale of the Thousand and One Nights -- recorded in one of the most vivid and sumptuous extant late thirteenth-century manuscripts -- as well as for her numerous other commissions, Queen Marie de Brabant (1260-1321) was heralded as a intellectual and literary patron comparable to Alexander the Great and Charlemagne. Nevertheless, classic studies of the late medieval period understate Marie's connection to the contemporary rise of secular interests at the French court. Pleasure and Politics seeks to reshape that conversation by illustrating how the historical and material record reveals the queen's essential contributions to the burgeoning court. This emerging importance of the secular and redefinition of the sacred during the last decades of Capetian rule becomes all the more striking when juxtaposed to the pious tone of the lengthy reign of Louis IX (1214-1270), which had ended just four years before Marie's marriage to his son. That Marie often chose innovative materials and iconographies for these objects -- ones that would later in the fourteenth century become the norm -- signals her importance in late medieval patronage. Pleasure and Politics examines Marie's life beginning with her youth in Brabant, to her entry into Paris in 1274 and continues until her death in 1321. It analyzes the dynamics of her patronage and its impact on contemporary and future women and men of the royal house.

Contents:

Introduction

Absorbing Brabantine culture : politics and poetry in the youth of Marie of Brabant

Transforming the court : new roles in politics, art, and ceremony

Deluxe, didactic, secular, and spiritual : manuscript patronage in the court of Marie of Brabant

Carolingian current : promotion and patrimony in the patronage of Marie of Brabant

Conclusion : the next generation : royal women's patronage into the fourteenth century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1905375689

9781905375684

OCLC:

1126212704