Queenship in Medieval France, 1300-1500 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137602732)

CONTENTS

The Queens of France (Fourteenth-Fifteenth Centuries)

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I

ACCEDING TO ROYAL DIGNITY

Chapter 1

MARRYING THE KING

Matrimonial 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 Coronation

The Forgotten Coronation?: Queens of the Fifteenth Century

Chapter 3

BEARING THE BLOOD OF FRANCE

The 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 Politics

Heiress 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 Representation

The 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 Perfection

The 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

Bibliography

Index

Author: Murielle Gaude-Ferragu
ISBN-10: 1137602732
ISBN-13: 9781137602732
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 08/31/2016
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.74h x 6.11w x 0.74d