Overview
- Offers the first study to compare early modern Polish and French ceremonies accompanying Jagiellonian and Valois royal weddings, coronations and childbirth
- Explores the dynamic between the pan-European royal culture, French and Polish political cultures, and the practicalities of staging royal ceremonies
- Establishes Poland’s place in the tapestry of early modern European monarchy, challenging the central place of western Europe in the historiography
Part of the book series: Queenship and Power (QAP)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- European queenship
- sixteenth-century royal culture
- Royal ceremonies
- early modern Europe
- Polish queens
- Royal weddings
- French queenship
- coronation ceremonies
- royal marriages
- royal motherhood
- Queens of France and Poland
- The Valois
- European royal ceremony
- the Jagiellonians
- pan-European
- sixteenth-century monarchy
- Bona Sforza
- Barbara Radziwiłł
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Reviews
“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)
“This well-researched and venturesome book gives us a new way of thinking about royal women, power, ritual, and religion that should influence our thinking on these topics for a long time. Anyone working in the early modern period—or on women’s history, monarchy, power, rituals, or religion—will need now to consult and consider Kosior’s new model for royal culture.” (Russell E. Martin, Professor of History, Westminster College, USA, author of A Bride for the Tsar)Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Becoming a Queen in Early Modern Europe
Book Subtitle: East and West
Authors: Katarzyna Kosior
Series Title: Queenship and Power
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11848-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-11847-1Published: 26 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-11848-8Published: 18 March 2019
Series ISSN: 2730-938X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9398
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 256
Topics: History of Early Modern Europe, World History, Global and Transnational History, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, History of France, Women's Studies