Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France
Reputation, Reinterpretation, and Reincarnation
Editors: Paranque, Estelle (Ed.)
Free Preview- Considers how early modern rulers have been remembered and reimagined in literature and popular culture
- Features a wide chronological scope and a range of well-known and lesser-known rulers
- Appeals to scholars and students of queenship, early modern monarchy, royal studies, early modern history, women’s history, literature, and popular culture
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This collection examines the afterlives of early modern English and French rulers. Spanning five centuries of cultural memory, the volume offers case studies of how kings and queens were remembered, represented, and reincarnated in a wide range of sources, from contemporary pageants, plays, and visual art to twenty-first-century television, and from premodern fiction to manga and romance novels. With essays on well-known figures such as Elizabeth I and Marie Antoinette as well as lesser-known monarchs such as Francis II of France and Mary Tudor, Queen of France, Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France brings together reflections on how rulers live on in collective memory.
- About the authors
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Estelle Paranque is Lecturer in Early Modern History at New College of the Humanities and an Honorary Research Fellow within the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of Elizabeth I of England through Valois Eyes: Power, Representation, and Diplomacy in the Reign of the Queen, 1558–1588 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
- Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Introduction: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Power of Memory
Pages 1-10
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Boudicca and Elizabeth Rally Their Troops: “Two Queens Both Alike in Dignity”
Pages 13-33
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Princess, Duchess, Queen: Mary Tudor As Represented in a Seventeenth-Century French Love Story
Pages 35-50
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Virtue Betray’d: Women Writing Anne Boleyn in the Long Eighteenth Century
Pages 51-71
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“Of Hopes Great as Himselfe”: Tudor and Stuart Legacies of Edward VI
Pages 73-91
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France
- Book Subtitle
- Reputation, Reinterpretation, and Reincarnation
- Editors
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- Estelle Paranque
- Series Title
- Queenship and Power
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-22344-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-22344-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-22343-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 331
- Topics