Empresses and Queens in the Courtly Public Sphere from the 17th to the 20th Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004354999)

This book analyzes the evolving interaction between court and media from an understudied perspective. Eight case studies focus on different European Empress consorts and Queen regnants from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, using a comparative, cross-media, and cross-period approach. The volume addresses a multitude of questions, ranging from how dynastic women achieved public prominence through their portraits; how their faces and bodies were moulded and rearticulated to fit varying expectations in the courtly public sphere; and the degree to which they, as female actors, engaged with or had agency within the processes of production and reception. In particular, two types of female rulership and their relationship to diverse media are contrasted, and lesser-known and under-researched dynastic women are spotlighted.

Contributors: Christine Engelke, Anna Fabiankowitsch, Inga Lena ﾅngstr Grandien, Titia Hensel, Andrea Mayr, Alison McQueen, Marion Romberg, and Alison Rowley.

Author: Marion Romberg
ISBN-10: 9004354999
ISBN-13: 9789004354999
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 07/05/2021
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover