Queens, Regents, Mistresses : Reflections on Extracting Elite Women's Stories from Medieval and Early Modern French Narrative Sources (Medieval Interventions 9) (2023. VIII, 238 S. 225 mm)

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Queens, Regents, Mistresses : Reflections on Extracting Elite Women's Stories from Medieval and Early Modern French Narrative Sources (Medieval Interventions 9) (2023. VIII, 238 S. 225 mm)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 238 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9781433193712

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This book is a series of case studies reflecting on narrative primary source representations of queens, regents, and royal mistresses in medieval and early modern France. Examining stories of famous women, including Isabeau of Bavaria, Valentina Visconti, Agnès Sorel, Diane de Poitiers, Eleanor of Austria, and even Anne Boleyn, who spent her formative years at the French court, author Tracy Adams takes unprovable or false anecdotes as a point of departure and follows them back to their primary sources.

When readers open a work of history, they have the right to assume that what they find on the pages is "historically true," in other words, that it accords with primary sources. And yet scholars studying women of the medieval and early modern periods know all too well how often unprovable or even false anecdotes, frequently scandalous or misogynistic, pass for true. Typically deriving from secondary sources that themselves rely on secondary sources, these anecdotes are passed along in a self-reflexive feedback loop.

The central argument of Queens, Regents, Mistresses is that, taken on their own, primary sources cannot be used as straightforward vehicles of truth. Each of Adams' case studies therefore lays out the process of engaging with these sources. Revised interpretations leave readers with new perspectives on these famous women, and also the bibliographical information necessary to turn to the primary sources for themselves.

Contents

Introduction: Extracting Elite Women's Stories from Medieval and Early Modern French Narrative Sources - The Affaire de la Tour de Nesle in Contemporary Chronicles: History or Persecution Texts? - Isabeau of Bavaria and Christine de Pizan: Creating Political Authority - Misogynistic Throwaways: The Case of Isabeau of Bavaria - Caught in the Middle: Valentina Visconti and Accusations of Witchcraft - Revisiting Isabeau of Bavaria's Jewels - Agnès Sorel and Antoinette de Maignelais: A Star and a Footnote - Unpacking Brantôme's Particularitez - "Issuing from the Great Flame of This Joy": Louise of Savoy, Marguerite of Navarre and Emotional Intimacy - Catfight or Political Rivalry? The Duchess of Étampes and Diane de Poitiers - Eleanor of Austria: The Foreign Queen - "Vous pranderay pour ma seulle mestres": Anne Boleyn's Marriage Strategy? - Index.

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