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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789772803321

Autore

Guardiola-Griffiths Cristina <1970->

Titolo

Legitimizing the queen : propaganda and ideology in the reign of Isabel I of Castile / / Cristina Guardiola-Griffiths

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lewisburg, [Pa.], : Bucknell University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-23392-4

9786613233929

1-61148-019-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 pages)

Disciplina

946/.03092

Soggetti

Education of princesses - Spain - History

Patronage, Political - Spain - History - 15th century

Spain History Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516

Spain Kings and rulers Conduct of life

Spain Court and courtiers History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Legitimizing the Queen; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Tanto monta, monta tanto: Political and Literary Affinitiesin the Quest for Sovereignty; 1. A Mirror for the Princess?: Advice Books and the Debate on Women; 2. Politics and Gender in the Fight for Castile; 3. Legitimizing the Queen: Isabel the Catholic and the Poncella de Francia; 4. The Transparent Mirror:  The Application for Justice in the Diálogo del prudente rey y el sabio aldeano; 5. The Fractured Portrait, a Cracked Mirror of Ideals; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Isabel I's reign in Castile responds to the ostensible needs expressed throughout the fifteenth-century for moral and political regeneration. Isabel is seen in many works as a just and wise monarch, as a redeemer of her people, and as a divine sovereign. This book reviews changes in the gendered construction of Isabelline sovereignty from the theoretical perspective of the speculum principum dedicated to her. It offers a Bourdieuian approach to the more literary specula texts used to legitimize and uphold Isabel's power.