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- Topic
- Gender Studies
- Subjects
- Art & Culture
- Age Level
- Adults
- ISBN
- 9781845451592
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1845451597
ISBN-13
9781845451592
eBay Product ID (ePID)
50790931
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Publication Name
Body of the Queen : Gender and Rule in the Courtly World, 1500-2000
Language
English
Subject
Women, Royalty, History & Theory, Europe / General
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2005-057003
Reviews
"This book is a welcome...contribution to the growing literature on queens. That it scrutinizes so many queens in so many different contexts will give this collection broad appeal and make it appropriate reading in university courses devoted to gender and power." Francia
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
305.48/09621
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Foreword List of Contributors Chapter 1. Introduction: Conceptual Approaches to the Queen's Body Regina Schulte PART I: CONSTRUCTING THE BODY POLITIC Chapter 2. How Two Ladies Steal a Crown: The Memoirs of Helene Kottannerin (1439-40) at the Court of Queen Elisabeth of Hungary (1409-42) Horst Wenzel Chapter 3. Elizabeth When a Princess: Early Self-representations in a Portrait and a Letter Susan Frye Chapter 4. Elizabeth through the Looking Glass: Picturing the Queen's Two Bodies Louis Montrose Chapter 5. Royal Flesh, Gender and the Construction of Monarchy Rachel Weil PART II: TRANSGRESSING THE BODY NATURAL Chapter 6. What the King Saw in the Belly of the Beast or How the Lion Got in the Queen: Allegories of Royal Procreation in the 1622 Royal Entry into Lyon Abby E. Zanger Chapter 7. Posterity and the Body of the Princess in German Court Funeral Books Jill Bepler Chapter 8. 'Madame, Ma Chère Fille' - 'Dearest Child': Letters from Imperial Mothers to Royal Daughters Regina Schulte PART III: QUEENS OF MODERNITY Chapter 9. Queen Margherita (1851-1926): 'The Only Man in the House of Savoy' Catherine Brice Chapter 10. The Double Skin: Imperial Fashion in the Nineteenth Century Juliane Vogel Chapter 11. Theatrical Monarchy: The Making of Victoria, the Modern Family Queen Bernd Weisbrod Chapter 12. The Unmanly Emperor: Wilhelm II and the Fragility of the Royal Individual Martin Kohlrausch PART IV: VISUAL METAMORPHOSES Chapter 13. The 'Berlin' Nefertiti Bust: Imperial Fantasies in Twentieth-Century German Archaeological Discourse Claudia Breger Chapter 14. Imagined Queens between Heaven and Hell: Representations of Grace Kelly and Romy Schneider Alexis Schwarzenbach Chapter 15. Queer Queen: Elizabeth I in Sally Potter's Film Orlando Katharina Sykora Bibliography Index
Synopsis
How many "bodies" does a queen have? What is the significance of multiple "bodies"? How has the gendered body been constructed and perceived within the context of the European courts during the course of the past five centuries? These are some of the questions addressed in this anthology, a contribution to the ongoing debate provoked by Ernst H. Kantorowicz in his seminal work from 1957, The King's Two Bodies . On the basis of both textual self-presentations and visual representations a gradual transformation of the queen appears: A sacred/providential figure in medieval and early modern period, an ideal bourgeois wife during the late-18th and 19th Centuries, and a star-like (re-) presentation of royalty during the past century. Twentieth-century mass media has produced the celebrity and film star queens personified by the contested and enigmatic Nefertiti of ancient Egypt, the mysterious Elizabeth (Sisi) of Austria, Grace Kelly as Queen of both Hollywood and Monaco and Romy Schneider as the invented Empress., "This book is a welcome...contribution to the growing literature on queens. That it scrutinizes so many queens in so many different contexts will give this collection broad appeal and make it appropriate reading in university courses devoted to gender and power." - Francia How many "bodies" does a queen have? What is the significance of multiple "bodies"? How has the gendered body been constructed and perceived within the context of the European courts during the course of the past five centuries? These are some of the questions addressed in this anthology, a contribution to the ongoing debate provoked by Ernst H. Kantorowicz in his seminal work from 1957, The King's Two Bodies. On the basis of both textual self-presentations and visual representations a gradual transformation of the queen appears: A sacred/providential figure in medieval and early modern period, an ideal bourgeois wife during the late-18th and 19th Centuries, and a star-like (re-) presentation of royalty during the past century. Twentieth-century mass media has produced the celebrity and film star queens personified by the contested and enigmatic Nefertiti of ancient Egypt, the mysterious Elizabeth (Sisi) of Austria, Grace Kelly as Queen of both Hollywood and Monaco and Romy Schneider as the invented Empress. Regina Schulte's main fields of research are social and cultural history from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, especially the history of crime, gender and war. She taught Modern History and Gender History at Technical University Berlin, Bochum, Cornell University, and European University Institute Florence. Currently she holds a Chair of Modern and Contemporary History/Gender History at the Ruhr-Universit t Bochum., How many "bodies" does a queen have? What is the significance of multiple "bodies"? How has the gendered body been constructed and perceived within the context of the European courts during the course of the past five centuries? These are some of the questions addressed in this anthology, a contribution to the ongoing debate provoked by Ernst H. Kantorowicz in his seminal work from 1957, The King's Two Bodies. On the basis of both textual self-presentations and visual representations a gradual transformation of the queen appears: A sacred/providential figure in medieval and early modern period, an ideal bourgeois wife during the late-18th and 19th Centuries, and a star-like (re-) presentation of royalty during the past century. Twentieth-century mass media has produced the celebrity and film star queens personified by the contested and enigmatic Nefertiti of ancient Egypt, the mysterious Elizabeth (Sisi) of Austria, Grace Kelly as Queen of both Hollywood and Monaco and Romy Schneider as the invented Empress.
LC Classification Number
HQ1075 .B673 2005
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