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The Emblematic Queen : Extra-Literary Representations of Early Modern Queenship / edited by D. Barrett-Graves.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Queenship and Power, 2730-9398
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Europe--History.
- Europe.
- History, Modern.
- Sex.
- Social history.
- Great Britain--History.
- Great Britain.
- Europe--History--1492-.
- European History.
- Modern History.
- Gender Studies.
- Social History.
- History of Britain and Ireland.
- History of Early Modern Europe.
- Local Subjects:
- European History.
- Modern History.
- Gender Studies.
- Social History.
- History of Britain and Ireland.
- History of Early Modern Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2013.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This study examines representations of early modern female consorts and regnants via extra-literary emblematics such as paintings, jewelry, miniature portraits, carvings, placards, masques, funerary monuments, and imprese.
- Contents:
- Introduction: extra-literary emblematics / by Debra Barrett-Graves, California State University, East Bay
- Caterina Cornaro Queen of Cyprus
- Bejewled majesty: Queen Elizabeth I, precious stones and statecraft
- "Bear your body more seeming": open-kneed portraits of Elizabeth I
- Mermaids, sirens, and Mary Queen of Scots: icons of wantonness and pride
- Martyrdom and memory: Elizabeth Curle's portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots
- Anne of Denmark and the court masque: displaying and authoring queenship
- "A lily among thorns": the emblematic eclipse of Spain's Maria Lusa de Orleans in the hieroglyphs of her funeral exequies
- Afterward / by John Watkins, University of Minnesota.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781349454082
- 1349454087
- 9781137303103
- 1137303107
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