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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Rulers & elites : comparative studies in governance ; volume 4
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Rulers & elites ; v. 4.
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| Summary |
This multi-disciplinary collection of essays is the first cohesive attempt to integrate ladies-in-waiting into the master narrative of court studies. It provides evidence for the multitudinous ways in which 'women above stairs' influenced the politics and culture of their times. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Tudor England. -- Petticoats and politics: Elisabeth Parr and female agency at the early Elizabethan court / Helen Graham-Matheson -- Jane Dormer's recipe for politics: a refuge household in Spain for Mary Tudor's ladies-in-waiting / Hannah Leah Crumme -- Habsburgs. -- The imperial court in Vienna. -- Ladies-in-waiting at the imperial court of Vienna from 1550 to 1700: structures, responsibilities and career patterns / Katrin Keller -- "In service to my lady, the empress, as I have done every other day of my life": Margarita of Cardona, Baroness of Dietrichstein and lady-in-waiting of Maria of Austria / Vanessa de Cruz Medina -- The court in the Spanish Netherlands. -- Women and the politics of access at the court of Brussels: The infanta Isabella's camareras mayores (1598-1633) / Birgit Houben and Dries Raeymaekers -- Dwarfs-and a loca-as ladies' maids at the Spanish Habsburg courts / Janet Ravenscroft -- France. -- 'A stable of whores'? the 'flying squadron' of Catherine de Medici / Una McIlvenna -- In search of the ladies-in-waiting and maids of honour of Mary, Queen of Scots: a prosoprographical analysis of the female household / Rosalind K. Marshall -- Clients and friends: the ladies-in-waiting at the court of Anne of Austria (1615-66) / Oliver Mallick -- The Stuart courts. -- Perceptions of influence: the Catholic diplomacy of Queen Anna and her ladies, 1601-1604 / Cynthia Fry -- The goddess of the household: the masquing politics of Lucy Harington-Russell, Countess of Bedford / Nadine Akkerman -- The female bedchamber of Queen Henrietta Maria: politics familial networks and policy, 1626-40 / Sara J. Wolfson -- The Swedish court. -- Living in the house of power: women at the early modern Swedish court / Fabian Persson -- Epilogue the politics of female households: afterthoughts / Jeroen Duindam. |
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Ladies-in-waiting -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
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Ladies-in-waiting. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
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16th century |
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Ladies-in-waiting -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
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17th century |
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Ladies-in-waiting -- Europe -- Biography.
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Biographies.
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Europe -- Politics and government -- 1492-1648.
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Politics and government. |
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1492-1648 |
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Courts and courtiers -- History -- 16th century.
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Courts and courtiers. |
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Courts and courtiers -- History -- 17th century.
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Women -- Europe -- Biography.
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Women. |
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1492-1699 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Biographies.
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Akkerman, Nadine.
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Houben, Birgit.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Politics of female households. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014 9789004236066 |
| ISBN |
9789004258396 (electronic book) |
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9004258396 (electronic book) |
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130608251X (electronic book) |
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9781306082518 (electronic book) |
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9004236066 |
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9789004236066 |
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9789004236066 |
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