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Sartorial Politics in Early Modern Europe : Fashioning Women / ed. by Erin Griffey.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Visual and Material Culture, 1300 -1700 ; 12Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) : 78Content type:
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  • 9789048537242
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 391.0094
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Isabella d'Este's Sartorial Politics -- 2. Dressing the Queen at the French Renaissance Court: Sartorial Politics -- 3. Dressing the Bride: Weddings and Fashion Practices at German Princely Courts in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries -- 4. Lustrous Virtue: Eleanor of Austria's Jewels and Gems as Composite Cultural Identity and Affective Maternal Agency -- 5. Queen Elizabeth: Studded with Costly Jewels -- 6. A 'Cipher of A and C set on the one Syde with diamonds': Anna of Denmark's Jewellery and the Politics of Dynastic Display -- 7. 'She bears a duke's revenues on her back': Fashioning Shakespeare's Women at Court -- 8. How to Dress a Female King: Manifestations of Gender and Power in the Wardrobe of Christina of Sweden -- 9. Clothes Make the Queen: Mariana of Austria's Style of Dress, from Archduchess to Queen Consort (1634-1665) -- 10. 'The best of Queens, the most obedient wife': Fashioning a Place for Catherine of Braganza as Consort to Charles II -- 11. Chintz, China, and Chocolate: The Politics of Fashion at Charles II's Court -- 12. Henrietta Maria and the Politics of Widows' Dress at the Stuart Court -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: For women at the early modern courts, clothing and jewellery were essential elements in their political arsenal, enabling them to signal their dynastic value, to promote loyalty to their marital court and to advance political agendas. This is the first collection of essays to examine how elite women in early modern Europe marshalled clothing and jewellery for political ends. With essays encompassing women who traversed courts in Denmark, England, France, Germany, Habsburg Austria, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Sweden, the contributions cover a broad range of elite women from different courts and religious backgrounds as well as varying noble ranks.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Isabella d'Este's Sartorial Politics -- 2. Dressing the Queen at the French Renaissance Court: Sartorial Politics -- 3. Dressing the Bride: Weddings and Fashion Practices at German Princely Courts in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries -- 4. Lustrous Virtue: Eleanor of Austria's Jewels and Gems as Composite Cultural Identity and Affective Maternal Agency -- 5. Queen Elizabeth: Studded with Costly Jewels -- 6. A 'Cipher of A and C set on the one Syde with diamonds': Anna of Denmark's Jewellery and the Politics of Dynastic Display -- 7. 'She bears a duke's revenues on her back': Fashioning Shakespeare's Women at Court -- 8. How to Dress a Female King: Manifestations of Gender and Power in the Wardrobe of Christina of Sweden -- 9. Clothes Make the Queen: Mariana of Austria's Style of Dress, from Archduchess to Queen Consort (1634-1665) -- 10. 'The best of Queens, the most obedient wife': Fashioning a Place for Catherine of Braganza as Consort to Charles II -- 11. Chintz, China, and Chocolate: The Politics of Fashion at Charles II's Court -- 12. Henrietta Maria and the Politics of Widows' Dress at the Stuart Court -- Works Cited -- Index

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For women at the early modern courts, clothing and jewellery were essential elements in their political arsenal, enabling them to signal their dynastic value, to promote loyalty to their marital court and to advance political agendas. This is the first collection of essays to examine how elite women in early modern Europe marshalled clothing and jewellery for political ends. With essays encompassing women who traversed courts in Denmark, England, France, Germany, Habsburg Austria, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Sweden, the contributions cover a broad range of elite women from different courts and religious backgrounds as well as varying noble ranks.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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