TY  - BOOK
AU  - Broomhall,Susan
TI  - Women and Power at the French Court, 1483-1563
T2  - Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
SN  - 9789048533404
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - History / Europe / Renaissance
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - Women and Power at the French Court, 1483-1563 explores the ways in which a range of women "as consorts, regents, mistresses, factional power players, attendants at court, or as objects of courtly patronage" wielded power in order to advance individual, familial, and factional agendas at the early sixteenth-century French court. Spring-boarding from the burgeoning scholarship of gender, the political, and power in early modern Europe, the collection provides a perspective from the French court, from the reigns of Charles VIII to Henri II, a time when the French court was a renowned center of culture and at which women played important roles. Cross-disciplinary in its perspectives, these essays by historians, art and literary scholars investigate the dynamic operations of gendered power in political acts, recognized status as queens and regents, ritualized behaviors such as gift-giving, educational coteries, and through social networking, literary and artistic patronage, female authorship, and epistolary strategies
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/60c7c3dd-0064-4ea0-9345-1ef911fa162d
ER  -