Elite Women As Diplomatic Agents in Italy and Hungary, 1470-1510 : Kinship and the Aragonese Dynastic Network / Jessica O'Leary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Leary, Jessica, author.

Series:

Gender and power in the premodern world.

Gender and Power in the Premodern World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hungary--Foreign relations.

Hungary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 106 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leeds, England : Arc Humanities Press, [2022]

Summary:

This book explores the diplomatic role of women in early modern European dynastic networks through the study of Aragonese marriage alliances in late-fifteenth-century Italy and Hungary. It challenges the frequent erasure of dynastic wives from diplomatic and political narratives to show how elite women were diplomatically active agents for two dynasties. <br><br> Chapters analyze the lives of Eleonora (1450-1493) and Beatrice d'Aragona (1457-1508), daughters of King Ferrante of Naples (1423-1494), and how they negotiated their natal and marital relationships to achieve diplomatic outcomes. While Ferrante expected his daughters to follow paternal imperatives and to remain engaged in collective dynastic strategy, the extent of his kinswomen's continued participation in familial projects was dependent on the nature of their marital relationships. The book traces the access to these relationships that enabled courtly women to re-enter the diplomatic space after marriage, not as objects, but as agents, with their own strategies, politics, and schemes.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Chronology

Introduction

Chapter One: Dynastic Wives, War, and Mediation

Chapter Two: Sisterly Negotiation

Chapter Three: A Family Divided

Chapter Four: Female Agency in Exile

Conclusion

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Mar 2022).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781641892421

1641892420

OCLC:

1291266896