Becoming a Queen in Early Modern Europe: East and West

ISBN-13: 9783030118471 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 256 str.

Katarzyna Kosior

Recenzje

"Kosior has crafted a well thought out and impeccably well-researched monograph that leaves her readers wanting more. ... This work is an approachable, groundbreaking study that should make its way onto syllabi and into the to-read lists of researchers of royal studies, women's history, courtly ceremonial, and the early modern period in general." (Courtney Herber, Royal Studies Journal, Vol. 7 (1), 2020)

Spis treści

1. Introduction

2. Royal Weddings: Protocol, Identity and Emotion

3. Coronation: Consort to Royal Power

4. Political Culture and Rhetoric of Queenship

5. Conception, Childbirth and Motherhood: Performing a Royal Family

6. Conclusion

O autorze

Katarzyna Kosior is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Northumbria University, UK.

Blurb

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.