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Author:   Murielle Gaude-Ferragu ,  Angela Krieger
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781349930302

ISBN 10:   134993030
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   23 March 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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CONTENTS The Queens of France (Fourteenth-Fifteenth Centuries) List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I ACCEDING TO ROYAL DIGNITY Chapter 1 MARRYING THE KING Matrimonial Strategies Royal Weddings Love and Separation: The Royal Couple   Chapter 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 The Forgotten Coronation?: Queens of the Fifteenth Century   Chapter 3 BEARING THE BLOOD OF FRANCE The Indispensability of Motherhood The Purified Woman: Lying-In and Child Rearing The Mother as Educator   Part II A WOMAN IN POLITICS: THE POWER OF THE QUEEN <   Chapter 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   Chapter 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   Chapter 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 Part III THE SYMBOLIC GOVERNMENT Chapter 7 COURTLY SOCIETY: THE QUEEN IN HER HÔTEL The Queen’s Apartments The ‘Court of Ladies’: The Queen’s Hôtel Courtly Life   Chapter 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   Chapter 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   Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index 

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Murielle Gaude-Ferragu is University Professor of History at the Université Paris-13, Sorbonne-Paris-Cité, France.   Angela Krieger, PhD, is a translator and editor based in Paris, France.

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