Editors:
- Considers the life and legacy of Renée de France (1510–75), exploring her cultural, spiritual, and political influence
- Assesses Renée's place within a long line of powerful French royal women
- Draws on frequently overlooked sources across poetry, theater, landscape architecture, letters, and ambassadorial reports
Part of the book series: Queenship and Power (QAP)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book considers the life and legacy of Renée de France (1510–75), the youngest daughter of King Louis XII and Anne de Bretagne, exploring her cultural, spiritual, and political influence and her evolving roles and actions as fille de France, Duchess of Ferrara, and Dowager Duchess at Montargis. Drawing on a variety of often overlooked sources – poetry, theater, fine arts, landscape architecture, letters, and ambassadorial reports – contributions highlight Renée’s wide-ranging influence in sixteenth-century Europe, from the Italian Wars to the French Wars of Religion. These essays consider her cultural patronage and politico-religious advocacy, demonstrating that she expanded upon intellectual and moral values shared with her sister, Claude de France; her cousins, Marguerite de Navarre and Jeanne d’Albret; and her godmother and mother, Anne de France and Anne de Bretagne, thereby solidifying her place in a long line of powerful French royal women.
Editors and Affiliations
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Clemson University, Clemson, USA
Kelly Digby Peebles
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University of Michigan–Dearborn, Dearborn, USA
Gabriella Scarlatta
About the editors
Gabriella Scarlatta is Professor of French and Italian and Associate Dean in the College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters at The University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Representing the Life and Legacy of Renée de France
Book Subtitle: From Fille de France to Dowager Duchess
Editors: Kelly Digby Peebles, Gabriella Scarlatta
Series Title: Queenship and Power
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69121-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69120-2Published: 24 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69123-3Published: 25 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69121-9Published: 23 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2730-938X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9398
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 396
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Early Modern Europe, History of France, History, general