Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty

Royal women did much more to wield power besides marrying the king and producing the heir. Subverting the dichotomies of public/private and formal/informal that gender public authority as male and informal authority as female, this book examines royal women as agents of influence. With an expansive...

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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
Schriftenreihe:Queenship and Power
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ISBN:9783319758770
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Kings' Daughters, Sisters, and Wives: Fonts and Conduits of Power and Legitimacy
  • 3. From Family to Politics: Queen Apollonis as Agent of Dynastic/Political Loyalty
  • 4. Queens and their Children: Dynastic Dis/loyalty in the Hellenistic Period
  • 5. On the Alleged Treachery of Julia Domna and Septimius Severus' Failed Siege of Hatra
  • 6. "In Protection of Our Own Interests We Rebel."
  • 7. Prince Pedro: A Case of Dynastic Disloyalty in 15th century Portugal?
  • 8. Dynastic Loyalty and the 'Queenships' of Mary Queen of Scots
  • 9. Embodied Devotion: The Dynastic and Religious Loyalty of Renée de France (1510-1575)
  • 10. Visual Propaganda and Ritual at the Early Stuart Court in England
  • 11. Dynastic Loyalty and Allegiances: Ottoman Resilience during the Global Seventeenth Century Crisis
  • 12. For Empire or Dynasty? Empress Elisabeth Christine and the Brunswicks
  • 13. French Historians' Loyalty and Disloyalty to French Monarchy between 1815 and 1848.