Queens, Regents, Mistresses; Reflections on Extracting Elite Women's Stories from Medieval and Early Modern French Narrative Sources

ISBN-13: 9781433193712 / Angielski

Tracy Adams

Opis

This book is a series of case studies reflecting on narrative primary source representations of queens, regents, and royal mistresses in medieval and early modern France.

Spis treści

Introduction: Extracting Elite Women's Stories from Medieval and Early Modern French Narrative Sources - The Affaire de la Tour de Nesle in Contemporary Chronicles: History or Persecution Texts? - Isabeau of Bavaria and Christine de Pizan: Creating Political Authority - Misogynistic Throwaways: The Case of Isabeau of Bavaria - Caught in the Middle: Valentina Visconti and Accusations of Witchcraft - Revisiting Isabeau of Bavaria's Jewels - Agnès Sorel and Antoinette de Maignelais: A Star and a Footnote - Unpacking Brantôme's Particularitez - "Issuing from the Great Flame of This Joy": Louise of Savoy, Marguerite of Navarre and Emotional Intimacy - Catfight or Political Rivalry? The Duchess of Étampes and Diane de Poitiers - Eleanor of Austria: The Foreign Queen - "Vous pranderay pour ma seulle mestres": Anne Boleyn's Marriage Strategy? - Index.

O autorze

Tracy Adams is Professor in European Language and Literatures at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has published widely on women in late medieval and early modern France.