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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483071103321

Autore

Kosior Katarzyna

Titolo

Becoming a Queen in Early Modern Europe : East and West / / by Katarzyna Kosior

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9783030118488

3030118487

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 pages)

Collana

Queenship and Power, , 2730-9398

Disciplina

321.609252094

943.8023

Soggetti

Europe - History - 1492-

World history

Russia - History

Europe, Eastern - History

Soviet Union - History

France - History

Feminism

Feminist theory

History of Early Modern Europe

World History, Global and Transnational History

Russian, Soviet, and East European History

History of France

Feminism and Feminist Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: East and West -- 2. Royal Weddings: Protocol, Identity and Emotion -- 3. Coronation: Consort to Royal Power -- 4. Political Culture and the Rhetoric of Queenship -- 5. Conception, Childbirth, and Motherhood: Performing a Royal Family -- 6. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Queens of Poland are conspicuously absent from the study of European queenship-an absence which, together with early modern Poland's marginal place in the historiography, results in a picture of European



royal culture that can only be lopsided and incomplete. Katarzyna Kosior cuts through persistent stereotypes of an East-West dichotomy and a culturally isolated early modern Poland to offer a groundbreaking comparative study of royal ceremony in Poland and France. The ceremonies of becoming a Jagiellonian or Valois queen, analysed in their larger European context, illuminate the connections that bound together monarchical Europe. These ceremonies are a gateway to a fuller understanding of European royal culture, demonstrating that it is impossible to make claims about European queenship without considering eastern Europe.