Women and Power at the French Court, 1483-1563 edited by Susan Broomhall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broomhall, Susan

Contributor:

Broomhall, Susan, editor.

Series:

Gendering the late medieval and early modern world.

Gendering the late medieval and early modern world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Power (Social sciences)--France--History--16th century.

Power (Social sciences).

Power (Social sciences)--France--History--15th century.

Women--History--Renaissance, 1450-1600.

Women.

Women--France--History--16th century.

Women--France--History--15th century.

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

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

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

France.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 boarding from the burgeoning scholarship of gender, the political, and power in early modern Europe, the book provides a perspective from the French court, from the reigns of Charles VIII to Henri II, a time at which the French court was a glittering centre of culture and which women are understood to have played increasingly important roles. Cross-disciplinary in its perspectives, these essays by historians, art and literary scholars cohesively investigate the dynamic operations of gendered power in political acts, recognised status as queens and regents, ritualised behaviors such as gift-giving, educational coteries, courtly household organisation, and social networking, literary and artistic patronage, female authorship, and epistolary strategies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

List of Figures

In the Orbit of the King / Broomhall, Susan

Part I: Conceptualizing and Practicing Female Power

1. The Political, Symbolic, and Courtly Power of Anne de France and Louise de Savoie / Chapy, Aubrée David-

2. Anne de France and Gift-Giving / Adams, Tracy

3. Louise de Savoie / Fagnart, Laure / Winn, Mary Beth

Part II: Centers and Peripheries of Power

4. Literary Lessons in Queenship and Power / Sadlack, Erin A.

5. Claude de France and the Spaces of Agency of a Marginalized Queen / Chevalier, Kathleen Wilson-

6. Portraits of Eleanor of Austria / Mansfield, Lisa

Part III: The Power of Creative Voices

7. Family Female Networking in Early Sixteenth-Century France / Brown, Cynthia J.

8. The Power of Reputation and Skills according to Anne de Graville / Bouchard, Mawy

9. Imagination and Influence / Reid, Jonathan A.

10. Power through Print / Bromilow, Pollie

Part IV: Economies of Power and Emotions

11. The Life and After-Life of a Royal Mistress / Potter, David

12. 'The King and I' / Broomhall, Susan

13. Catherine de Médicis Tested by the Virtue of Charity (1533-1559) / Crouzet, Denis

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-04-077538-1

1-003-70957-5

1-04-078494-1

90-485-3340-6

9781003709572

OCLC:

1077769879

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access