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Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c.1500-1800 book cover

1st Edition

Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c.1500-1800

By Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Adam Morton Copyright 2017
290 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge
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Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics examines the roles that queens consort played in dynastic politics and cultural transfer between their natal and marital courts during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This collection of essays analyses the part that these queens played in European politics, showing how hard and soft power, high politics and cultural... Read more

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Note on Proper Names

Notes on Contributors

  1. Introduction: Politics, Culture and Queens Consort

    2. Adam Morton

  2. Art Collections as Dynastic Tool: The Jagiellonian Princesses Katarzyna, Queen of Sweden, and Zofia, Duchess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel

    3. Almut Bues

  3. The Consort in the Theatre of Power: Maria Amalia of Saxony, Queen of the Two Sicilies, Queen of Spain

    4. Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly

  4. The ‘Two Bodies’ of the Female Sovereign: Awkward Hierarchies in Images of Empress Maria Theresia, Catherine the Great of Russia and their Male Consorts

    5. Christina Strunck

  5. Luise Ulrike of Prussia, Queen of Sweden, and the Search for Political Space

    6. Elise Dermineur and Svante Norrhem

  6. Marriage in a Global Context: Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland

    7. Clarissa Campbell Orr

  7. Dynastic Positioning and Political Newsgathering: Hedwig Eleonora of Schleswig-Gottorf, Queen of Sweden, and her Correspondence

    8. Jill Bepler

  8. Greeting the Stuart Queens Consort: Cultural Exchange and the nuptial texts for Henrietta Maria of France and Catherine of Braganza, Queens of Britain

    9. Anna-Marie Linnell

  9. Sanctity and Suspicion: Catholicism, Conspiracy and the Representation of Henrietta Maria of France and Catherine of Braganza, Queens of Britain

    10. Adam Morton

  10. Four Weddings and Five Funerals: Dynastic Integration and Cultural Transfer between the Houses of Braunschweig and Brandenburg in the Eighteenth Century

    11. Thomas Biskup

  11. Afterword: Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics

Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly

Index

Biography

Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly is Professor of German Literature at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Among her books are Court Culture in Dresden from Renaissance to Baroque (2002) and, most recently, Beauty or Beast? The Woman Warrior in the German Imagination from the Renaissance to the Present (2010).

Adam Morton is Lecturer in British History at Newcastle University. He is the editor of Getting Along? Religious Identities and Confessional Relations in Early Modern England (2012) and Illustrated Religious Texts in the North of Europe 1500-1800 (2014).

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