Author: Arthur Power LordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Regency of Marie de Médicis
Author: Arthur Power LordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Dancing Queen
Author: Melinda J. GoughPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487503660
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Under glittering lights in the Louvre palace, the French court ballets danced by Queen Marie de M?dicis prior to Henri IV's assassination in 1610 attracted thousands of spectators ranging from pickpockets to ambassadors from across Europe. Drawing on newly discovered primary sources as well as theories and methodologies derived from literary studies, political history, musicology, dance studies, and women's and gender studies, Dancing Queen traces how Marie's ballets authorized her incipient political authority through innovative verbal and visual imagery, avant-garde musical developments, and ceremonial arrangements of objects and bodies in space. Making use of women's "semi-official" status as political agents, Marie's ballets also manipulated the subtle social and cultural codes of international courtly society in order to more deftly navigate rivalries and alliances both at home and abroad. At times the queen's productions could challenge Henri IV's immediate interests, contesting the influence enjoyed by his mistresses or giving space to implied critiques of official foreign policy, for example. Such defenses of Marie's own position, though, took shape as part of a larger governmental program designed to promote the French consort queen's political authority not in its own right but as a means of maintaining power for the new Bourbon monarchy in the event of Henri IV's untimely death.
The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France, Consort of Henry IV, and Regent of the Kingdom Under Louis XIII
Author: Miss Pardoe (Julia)Perilous Performances
Author: Katherine CrawfordPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674029989
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In a book addressing those interested in the transformation of monarchy into the modern state and in intersections of gender and political power, Katherine Crawford examines the roles of female regents in early modern France. The reigns of child kings loosened the normative structure in which adult males headed the body politic, setting the stage for innovative claims to authority made on gendered terms. When assuming the regency, Catherine de Medicis presented herself as dutiful mother, devoted widow, and benign peacemaker, masking her political power. In subsequent regencies, Marie de Medicis and Anne of Austria developed strategies that naturalized a regendering of political structures. They succeeded so thoroughly that Philippe d'Orleans found that this rhetoric at first supported but ultimately undermined his authority. Regencies demonstrated that power did not necessarily work from the places, bodies, or genders in which it was presumed to reside. While broadening the terms of monarchy, regencies involving complex negotiations among child kings, queen mothers, and royal uncles made clear that the state continued regardless of the king--a point not lost on the Revolutionaries or irrelevant to the fate of Marie-Antoinette.
The Life of Marie de Medicis (Complete)
Author: Julia PardoePublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465549935
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1419
Book Description
The Life of Marie de Medicis
Author: Miss Pardoe (Julia)The Life of Marie de Medicis (Vol. 1-3)
Author: Miss PardoePublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 949
Book Description
The Life of Marie de Medicis in three volumes is a biography of Maria de' Medici, Queen of France, Consort of Henri IV, and Regent of the Kingdom under Louis XIII. She was a member of the wealthy and powerful House of Medici. Following the assassination of her husband in 1610, which occurred the day after her coronation, she acted as regent for her son, King Louis XIII of France, until 1617, when he came of age. She was noted for her ceaseless political intrigues at the French court and extensive artistic patronage. This biography in enriched by numerous curious extracts from a previously unpublished Memoir of M. le Commandeur de Rambure, Captain of the regiment of French Guards who served under King Henry IV and King Louis XIII.
The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France
Author: Miss Pardoe (Julia)The Life of Marie De Medicis (Complete)
Author: Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613100299
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1448
Book Description
Author: Julia Pardoe