Becoming a Queen in Early Modern Europe: East and West (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030118471)

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.

Author: Katarzyna Kosior
ISBN-10: 3030118479
ISBN-13: 9783030118471
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 03/26/2019
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.63d