Portraits of the Queen Mother

Polemics, Panegyrics, Letters

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

Av Catherine de Medicis, Catherine De Medicis, Leah L. Chang, Katherine Kong

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Catherine de Médicis was portrayed in her day as foreign usurper, loving queen and queen mother, patron of the arts, and Machiavellian murderer of Protestants. Leah L. Chang and Katherine Kong assemble a diverse array of scathing polemic and lofty praise, diplomatic reports, and Catherine’s own letters, which together show how one extraordinary woman’s rule intersected with early modern conceptions of gender, maternity, and power.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2014-10-01
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt513 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieOther Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series
Antal sidor283
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9780772721723
ÖversättareChang, Leah L., Kong, Katherine

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Leah L. Chang is Associate Professor of French at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. She is the author of Into Print: The Production of Female Authorship in Early Modern France (2009). Katherine Kong is an independent scholar and former Associate Professor of French at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of Lettering the Self in Medieval and Early Modern France (2010).

Acknowledgments xiIntroduction 1Letters of Catherine de Médicis, Selections 63Relazioni of the Venetian Ambassadors on the Affairs of France in the Sixteenth Century, Selections 111Marvelous Discourse on the Life, Actions, and Deportment of Catherine de Médicis, Queen Mother (1576), Selections 141Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantôme, “Second Discourse on the Queen, Mother of Our Last Kings, Catherine de Médicis,” Selections. From Book of Ladies, Poetry, and Funerary Writings 181Appendix 209Bibliography 255Index 269