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Jane Seymour: patronage, material culture and image crafting / Elizabeth Norton.
Van Pelt Library DA333.S49 N677 2027
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Norton, Elizabeth, 1982- Author.
- Series:
- Lives of royal women
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jane Seymour, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1509?-1537.
- Jane Seymour.
- Queens--Great Britain.
- Queens.
- Manners and customs--History.
- Manners and customs.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 278 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2027.
- Summary:
- "Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII, was queen of England for only seventeen months, something which has accounted for the little interest shown in her by historians. In her lifetime, however, she was a significant political figure, while her legacy and memorialization extended beyond her early death following childbirth in October 1537. Jane Seymour: Patronage, Material Culture and Image Crafting is the first full length academic study of Jane's life and queenship. Using extensive archival research, it pulls together all of the surviving information to provide both a biographical and a thematic account. Chapters include a consideration of Jane's queenship and political role, her material cultural environment, her household, her financial position and her religion, before also considering her afterlife and attempts to commemorate her both officially and unofficially. In doing so, the book banishes many myths that have grown up around the queen, most notably ideas of her passivity and powerlessness and also often repeated (but unsubstantiated) claims of her conservative religious outlook. This book presents a picture of Jane as an active and highly political queen consort. The book is a valuable resource for students and established scholars since it adds considerably to knowledge of the queen and re-inserts her into the heart of the dynasty, while also drawing pertinent conclusions on sixteenth-century queenship"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Jane's Life
- Queenship and Political Role
- The Material Culture of Jane's Queenship
- Jane's Household
- Income, Lands and Estates
- Jane's Religion
- Memorialising Jane.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version Norton, Elizabeth, 1982- Jane Seymour
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781032554099
- 1032554096
- 9781032554082
- 1032554088
- OCLC:
- 1587400159
- Publisher Number:
- 90104598179
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