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Queenship in Medieval France, 1300-1500
Hardcover
Series: New Middle Ages
PhilosophyLiterary CriticismFrench History
ISBN13: 9781137602732
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 31 2016
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.11 Depth: 8.74
Language: English
CONTENTS
The Queens of France (Fourteenth-Fifteenth Centuries)
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I
ACCEDING TO ROYAL DIGNITY
Chapter 1
MARRYING THE KINGMatrimonial Strategies
Royal Weddings
Love and Separation: The Royal Couple
Chapter 2
MARRYING THE MONARCHY: THE QUEEN'S CORONATION
The Body in All Its Majesty: The Coronation of Joan of Bourbon
'God Save the Queen': The Symbolism of the Queen's CoronationThe Forgotten Coronation?: Queens of the Fifteenth Century
Chapter 3
BEARING THE BLOOD OF FRANCEThe Indispensability of Motherhood
The Purified Woman: Lying-In and Child Rearing
The Mother as Educator
Part II
A WOMAN IN POLITICS:
THE POWER OF THE QUEEN
Chapter 4
THE 'PROFESSION' OF QUEEN
Capetian Queens and Salic Law
Transformations in Reginal Power: Acting in PoliticsHeiress Queens and Dowager Queens: The Territorial Inscription of Reginal Power
Chapter 5
THE 'GOVERNMENT OF WOMEN':DELEGATING POWER AND REGENCY
Regency 'Orders': Female Power?
Female Regency in Action: Seats of Power and Governance of the Kingdom
The Historiographical Posterity of Women in Power: 'Bad' Queens
Chapter 6
THE 'QUEEN OF CEREMONIES'
The Queen's Public Body: The Role of RepresentationThe Queen's Allegorical Body: Entry Ceremonies
The Queen's Final Triumph: Death and Funerals
Part III
THE SYMBOLIC GOVERNMENT
Chapter 7
COURTLY SOCIETY: THE QUEEN IN HER HÔTEL
The Queen's Apartments
The 'Court of Ladies': The Queen's Hôtel
Courtly Life
Chapter 8
THE ROAD TO ETERNITY: DEVOTIONS AND THE DIVINE
The Mirror of Christian PerfectionThe Queen as 'Mother of the Poor'
Religious and Sacred Foundations
Chapter 9
THE QUEEN'S TREASURY: ART, LITERATURE AND POWER
Art and Politics: The Queen's Treasury
Books and Culture: The Queen's Library
Queens as Cultural Advocates and Patronesses
Conclusion
Notes
Index
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