Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens

Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens
Title Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens PDF eBook
Author Carole Levin
Publisher Springer
Pages 297
Release 2015-08-18
Genre History
ISBN 1137534907

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Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens is a lively and erudite collection, unusual in an especially appealing way. This collection of essays shows how queens were represented in the Middle Ages and Renaissance through primary accounts, chronicles, and literary representations. The book also contains modern poetry and short plays about these same queens, allowing readers to understand and appreciate them both intellectually and emotionally. Contributors study a wide range of queens including such famous and fascinating women as Queen Elizabeth I, Cleopatra, Hecuba, the Empress Matilda, Mary Stuart, Margaret of Anjou, Catherine of Aragon, and the pirate queen Grace O'Malley. By pairing scholarly essays with contemporary poems about them, the collection demonstrates the continued relevance and immediacy of these powerful and fascinating women.

Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies

Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies
Title Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies PDF eBook
Author Anna Riehl Bertolet
Publisher Springer
Pages 399
Release 2017-11-08
Genre History
ISBN 3319640488

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The essays in this book traverse two centuries of queens and their afterlives—historical, mythological, and literary. They speak of the significant and subtle ways that queens leave their mark on the culture they inhabit, focusing on gender, marriage, national identity, diplomacy, and representations of queens in literature. Elizabeth I looms large in this volume, but the interrogation of queenship extends from Elizabeth's historical counterparts, such as Anne Boleyn and Catherine de Medici, to her fictional echoes in the pages of John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Mary Wroth, John Milton, and Margaret Cavendish. Celebrating and building on the renowned scholarship of Carole Levin, Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies exemplifies a range of innovative approaches to examining women and power in the early modern period.

Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens

Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens
Title Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens PDF eBook
Author Carole Levin
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 299
Release 2014-01-14
Genre History
ISBN 9781349572021

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This is a lively and erudite collection, unusual in an especially appealing way: not only are there essays about a range of queens and how they were represented in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, but the book contains modern poetry and short plays about these same queens, allowing a multi-faceted way of understanding and appreciating them.

Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France

Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France
Title Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France PDF eBook
Author Estelle Paranque
Publisher Springer
Pages 334
Release 2019-08-06
Genre History
ISBN 3030223442

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This collection examines the afterlives of early modern English and French rulers. Spanning five centuries of cultural memory, the volume offers case studies of how kings and queens were remembered, represented, and reincarnated in a wide range of sources, from contemporary pageants, plays, and visual art to twenty-first-century television, and from premodern fiction to manga and romance novels. With essays on well-known figures such as Elizabeth I and Marie Antoinette as well as lesser-known monarchs such as Francis II of France and Mary Tudor, Queen of France, Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France brings together reflections on how rulers live on in collective memory.

All the Queen’s Jewels, 1445–1548

All the Queen’s Jewels, 1445–1548
Title All the Queen’s Jewels, 1445–1548 PDF eBook
Author Nicola Tallis
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 272
Release 2022-11-29
Genre History
ISBN 1000787087

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From Margaret of Anjou to Katherine Parr, All the Queen’s Jewels examines the jewellery collections of the ten queen consorts of England between 1445–1548 and investigates the collections of jewels a queen had access to, as well as the varying contexts in which queens used and wore jewels. The jewellery worn by queens reflected both their gender and their status as the first lady of the realm. Jewels were more than decorative adornments; they were an explicit display of wealth, majesty and authority. They were often given to queens by those who wished to seek her favour or influence and were also associated with key moments in their lifecycle. These included courtship and marriage, successfully negotiating childbirth (and thus providing dynastic continuity), and their elevation to queenly status or coronation. This book explores the way that queens acquired jewels, whether via their predecessor, their own commission or through gift giving. It underscores that jewels were a vital tool that enabled queens to shape their identities as consort, and to fashion images of power that could be seen by their households, court and contemporaries. This book is perfect for anyone interested in medieval and Tudor history, queenship, jewellery and the history of material culture.

Catherine of Lancaster and her Religious Court Poets

Catherine of Lancaster and her Religious Court Poets
Title Catherine of Lancaster and her Religious Court Poets PDF eBook
Author Lesley Twomey
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 471
Release
Genre
ISBN 3031584805

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The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare's Queens

The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare's Queens
Title The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare's Queens PDF eBook
Author Kavita Mudan Finn
Publisher Springer
Pages 523
Release 2018-07-20
Genre History
ISBN 3319745182

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Of Shakespeare’s thirty-seven plays, fifteen include queens. This collection gives these characters their due as powerful early modern women and agents of change, bringing together new perspectives from scholars of literature, history, theater, and the fine arts. Essays span Shakespeare’s career and cover a range of famous and lesser-known queens, from the furious Margaret of Anjou in the Henry VI plays to the quietly powerful Hermione in The Winter’s Tale; from vengeful Tamora in Titus Andronicus to Lady Macbeth. Early chapters situate readers in the critical concerns underpinning any discussion of Shakespeare and queenship: the ambiguous figure of Elizabeth I, and the knotty issue of gender presentation. The focus then moves to analysis of issues such as motherhood, intertextuality, and contemporary political contexts; close readings of individual plays; and investigations of rhetoric and theatricality. Featuring twenty-five chapters with a rich variety of themes and methodologies, this handbook is an invaluable reference for students and scholars, and a unique addition to the fields of Shakespeare and queenship studies. Winner of the 2020 Royal Studies Journal book prize