Becoming a Queen in Early Modern Europe [electronic resource] : East and West /
Kosior, Katarzyna.author.
Queens of Poland are conspicuously absent from the study of European queenship—an absence which, together with early modern Poland’s marginal place in the historiography, results in a picture of European royal culture that can only be lopsided and incomplete. Katarzyna Kosior cuts through persistent stereotypes of an East-West dichotomy and a culturally isolated early modern Poland to offer a groundbreaking comparative study of royal ceremony in Poland and France. The ceremonies of becoming a Jagiellonian or Valois queen, analysed in their larger European context, illuminate the connections that bound together monarchical Europe. These ceremonies are a gateway to a fuller understanding of European royal culture, demonstrating that it is impossible to make claims about European queenship without considering eastern Europe.
1. Introduction: East and West -- 2. Royal Weddings: Protocol, Identity and Emotion -- 3. Coronation: Consort to Royal Power -- 4. Political Culture and the Rhetoric of Queenship -- 5. Conception, Childbirth, and Motherhood: Performing a Royal Family -- 6. Conclusion.
Queens of Poland are conspicuously absent from the study of European queenship—an absence which, together with early modern Poland’s marginal place in the historiography, results in a picture of European royal culture that can only be lopsided and incomplete. Katarzyna Kosior cuts through persistent stereotypes of an East-West dichotomy and a culturally isolated early modern Poland to offer a groundbreaking comparative study of royal ceremony in Poland and France. The ceremonies of becoming a Jagiellonian or Valois queen, analysed in their larger European context, illuminate the connections that bound together monarchical Europe. These ceremonies are a gateway to a fuller understanding of European royal culture, demonstrating that it is impossible to make claims about European queenship without considering eastern Europe.
Europe-History-1492-.
World history.
Russia-History.
France-History.
Women.
History of Early Modern Europe.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Russian, Soviet, and East European History.
History of France.
Women's Studies.