Queenship in medieval France, 1300-1500 /
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| Author / Creator: | Gaude-Ferragu, Murielle, author. |
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| Uniform title: | Pouvoir au féminin, XIV-XV siècle. English |
| Imprint: | New York : Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature, [2016] ©2016 |
| Description: | xv, 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The new middle ages New Middle Ages. |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10927422 |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Acceding to Royal Dignity
- 1. Marrying the King
- Matrimonial Strategics
- Royal Weddings
- Love and Separation: The Royal Couple
- 2. Marrying the Monarchy: The Queen's Coronation
- The Body in All Its Majesty: The Coronation of Joan of Bourbon
- `God Save the Queen': The Symbolism of the Queen's Coronation
- Thee Forgotten Coronation?: Queens of the Fifteenth Century
- 3. Bearing the Blood of France
- The Indispensability of Motherhood
- The Purified Woman: Lying-In and Child Rearing
- The Mother as Educator
- pt. II A Woman in Politics: The Power of the Queen
- 4. The `Profession' of Queen
- Capetian Queens and Salic Law
- Transformations in Reginal Power: Acting in Politics
- Heiress Queens and Dowager Queens: The Territorial Inscription of Reginal Power
- 5. The `Government of Women': Delegating Power and Regency
- Regency `Orders': Female Power?
- Female Regency in Action: Seats of Power and Governance of the Kingdom
- The Historiographical Posterity of Women in Power: `Bad' Queens
- 6. The `Queen of Ceremonies'
- The Queen's Public Body: The Role of Representation
- The Queen's Allegorical Body: Entry Ceremonies
- The Queen's `Final Triumph': Death and Funerals
- pt. III The Symbolic Government
- 7. Courtly Society: The Queen in Her Hotel
- The Queen's Apartments
- The `Court of Ladies': The Queen's Hotel
- Courtly Life
- 8. The Road to Eternity: Devotions and the Divine
- The Mirror of Christian Perfection
- The Queen as `Mother of the Poor'
- Religious and Sacred Foundations
- 9. The Queen's Treasury: Art, Literature and Power
- Art and Politics: The Queen's Treasury
- Books and Culture: The Queen's Library
- Queens as Cultural Advocates and Patronesses.
