Télécharger le livre :  Titled Elizabethans

Published over forty years ago, the original edition of Titled Elizabethans provided a ready reference source to Elizabethan court, state, and household. This long-awaited revised edition expands considerably upon the original, adding new categories and a host of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-10-23
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  The Queen's Mercy

During the Elizabethan era, writers such as Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Daniel, and others frequently expounded on mercy, exploring the sources and outcomes of clemency. This fresh reading of such depictions shows that the concept of mercy was a contested one,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-07-24
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Queenship in the Mediterranean

This groundbreaking collection explores the key roles that Mediterranean queens played as wives, as mothers, and above all as political actors. Ranging from Byzantine empresses to regnants and consorts in the Italian peninsula, they offer a bracing new perspective on...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-12-18
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  The Queens Regnant of Navarre

The five queens of Navarre were the largest group of female sovereigns in one European realm during the Middle Ages, but they are largely unknown beyond a regional audience. This survey fills this scholarly lacuna, focusing particularly on issues of female succession,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-09-04
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  The Emblematic Queen

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.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-05-07
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  The Name of a Queen

Itinerarium ad Windsor concerns a central question of the Elizabethan era: Why should a woman be allowed to rule with the same powers as a king? The man who poses this controversial question withinItinerarium is none other than Queen Elizabeth's powerful favorite Robert...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-04-17
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Mother Queens and Princely Sons

This study explores representations of the Madonna and Child in early modern culture. It considers the mother and son as a conceptual, religio-political unit and examines the ways in which that unit was embodied and performed. Of primary interest is the way mothers...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-10-15
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Fairy Tale Queens

Most of today's familiar fairy tales come from the stories of Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen, but this innovative study encourages us to explore the marvelous tales of authors from the early modern period Giovanni Straparola,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-09-14
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  The Last Plantagenet Consorts

An examination of fifteenth-century British queens through literature and history.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-06-08
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Mary I

This book explores the gender politics of the reign of Mary I of England from her coronation to her funeral and examines the ways in which the queen and her supporters used language, royal ceremonies, and images to bolster her right to rule and define her image as...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-06-04
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Three Medieval Queens

This book is an innovative study offering the first examination of how three fourteenth-century English queens, Margaret of France, Isabella of France, and Philippa of Hainault, exercised power and authority. It frames its analysis around four major themes: gender;...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-06-04
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  A Monarchy of Letters

This book examines Elizabeth's correspondence with several significant rulers, analyzing how her letters were constructed, drafted and presented, the rhetorical strategies used, and the role these letters played in facilitating diplomatic relations.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-05-16
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Wicked Women of Tudor England

This fascinating study delves into the lives of six Tudor women celebrated for their reputed wickedness. Collected here are accounts of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, Anne Seymour, Lettice Dudley, and Jane and Alice More. Warnicke rescues these women from historical...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-05-14
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  The French Queen's Letters

A fresh biography of Mary Tudor which challenges conventional views of her as a weeping hysteric and love-struck romantic, providing instead the portrait of a queen who drew on two sources of authority to increase the power of her position: epistolary conventions and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-04-11
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  The Foreign Relations of Elizabeth I

This edited volume brings together a collection of provocative essays examining a number of different facets of Elizabethan foreign affairs, encompassing England and The British Isles, Europe, and the dynamic civilization of Islam. As an entirely domestic queen who...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-04-11
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Tudor Queenship

This book brings together a selection of recent, cutting-edge research which, for the first time, challenges commonplace arguments about Mary and Elizabeth's relative successes or failures in order to rethink Tudor queenship.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-10-18
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Queenship and Voice in Medieval Northern Europe

This book examines female lordship and the power of the political voice in medieval Northern Europe, focusing on three prominent, foreign-born queens of medieval Scandinavia - Agnes of Denmark (d. 1304), Eufemia of Norway (d. 1312) and Margareta of Denmark/Sweden (d....
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-09-27
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  The Death of Elizabeth I

The death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603 was greeted by an outpouring of official proclamations, gossip-filled letters, tense diary entries, diplomatic dispatches, and somber sermons. English poets wrote hundreds of elegies to Elizabeth, and playwrights began bringing her...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-08-30
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  The Face of Queenship

The Face of Queenship investigates the aesthetic, political, and gender-related meanings in representations of Elizabeth I by her contemporaries. By attending to eyewitness reports, poetry, portraiture, and discourses on beauty and cosmetics, this book shows how the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-05-10
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Learned Queen

The first book to examine Elizabeth I as a learned princess, Learned Queen examines Elizabeth's own demonstrations of erudition alongside literary works produced by such political luminaries as Sir Philip Sidney and Robert Devereux, earl of Essex.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-12-07
Collection : Queenship and Power
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