The body of the queen : gender and rule in the courtly world from the 1500-2000 /: gender and rule in the courtly world from the 1500-2000. (2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Regina Schulte ; with the assistance of Pernille Arenfeldt, Martin Kohlrausch and Xenia von Tippleskirch.
• Other Names: Schulte, Regina, 1949-
• Contents: List of Illustrations; Foreword; List of Contributors <a href="/downloads/intros/SchulteBody_intro.pdf" target="_blank"><img align="left" border="0" onmouseout="this.src='/img/icon_pdf.png'" onmouseover="this.src='/img/icon_pdf2.png'" src="/img/icon_pdf.png" /> 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
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Subjects: 321.6; Queens; Sex role -- History; Human body -- Social aspects; Courts and courtiers -- History; Monarchy -- History; Courts and courtiers; Human body -- Social aspects; Monarchy; Queens; Sex role; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782386278; 1782386270
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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