Overview
- Examines how modern gender ideologies influence representations of premodern monarchs in popular media
- Covers a wide range of recent and well-known films, television shows, and historical fiction from both European and American markets
- Appeals to scholars of medievalism, royal studies, and gender studies
Part of the book series: Queenship and Power (QAP)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Reappraising Female Rulers in the Light of Modern Feminism(s)
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Questions of Adaptation: Bringing Premodern Queens to the Page and Screen
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Undermining Authority: Rulers with Conflicted Gender and Sexual Identities
Keywords
- Medievalism
- Women's history
- presentism
- medieval film and television
- premodern rulers in popular culture
- early modern queenship
- Empress Matilda
- Isabella of Angoulême
- medievalism and feminist ideology
- gender in The White Queen
- Juana I
- Queen Christina
- Elizabeth I in film
- Muhammad XI
- Olaf II Haraldsson
- gender and sexuality
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Reviews
“Premodern Rulers, Postmodern Viewers is an important collection given the boon of period pieces and exciting, new visions of the relationship between history and ‘truth.’ The essays will be of interest to those of us working on early modern rulers but also to those interested in theorizing these adaptations of historical figures. … I imagine teachers of premodern texts and histories will appreciate a clear point of entry into discussing premodern history with students.” (Alicia Andrzejewski, Early Modern Women Journal, Vol. 16 (2), 2022)
“Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers is a timely and important collection of essays. Throughout the book, its authors deliver a wide range of essays and methodologies (including transmedia, fandom, feminism, and visual culture); the resulting book offers thoughtful, insightful, and much-needed analysis of premodern women in modern representations. This will be an excellent book for both students and their teachers, offering both rigorous, cutting-edge scholarship as well as critical analysis which fills an important gap in existing scholarship.” (Andrew Elliott, Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Lincoln, UK)“This original and innovative collection of essays sheds new light on enduring questions and on the relationship between media and the history of queenship.” (Núria Silleras-Fernández, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Karl C. Alvestad is Lecturer in History at the University of Winchester, UK.
Elena Woodacre is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern European History at the University of Winchester, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers
Book Subtitle: Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture
Editors: Janice North, Karl C. Alvestad, Elena Woodacre
Series Title: Queenship and Power
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68771-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-68770-4Published: 09 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88656-5Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-68771-1Published: 01 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2730-938X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9398
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 351
Number of Illustrations: 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Early Modern Europe, History of Medieval Europe, Gender and Sexuality, Cultural History, Film History