{"product_id":"the-body-of-the-queen-gender-and-rule-in-the-courtly-world-1500-2000-9781845451592","title":"The Body of the Queen: Gender and Rule in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tHow many “bodies” does a queen have? What is the significance of multiple “bodies”? How has the gendered body been constructed and perceived within the context of the European courts during the course of the past five centuries? These are some of the questions addressed in this anthology, a contribution to the ongoing debate provoked by Ernst H. Kantorowicz in his seminal work from 1957, \u003cem\u003eThe King’s Two Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e. On the basis of both textual self-presentations and visual representations a gradual transformation of the queen appears: A sacred\/providential figure in medieval and early modern period, an ideal bourgeois wife during the late-18th and 19th Centuries, and a star-like (re-) presentation of royalty during the past century. Twentieth-century mass media has produced the celebrity and film star queens personified by the contested and enigmatic Nefertiti of ancient Egypt, the mysterious Elizabeth (Sisi) of Austria, Grace Kelly as Queen of both Hollywood and Monaco and Romy Schneider as the invented Empress.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“This book is a welcome…contribution to the growing literature on queens. That it scrutinizes so many queens in so many different contexts will give this collection broad appeal and make it appropriate reading in university courses devoted to gender and power.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Francia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tForeword\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Introduction: Conceptual Approaches to the Queen’s Body\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRegina Schulte\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I: CONSTRUCTING THE BODY POLITIC\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e How Two Ladies Steal a Crown: The Memoirs of Helene Kottannerin (1439–40) at the Court of Queen Elisabeth of Hungary (1409–42)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eHorst Wenzel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth When a Princess: Early Self-representations in a Portrait and a Letter\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eSusan Frye\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth through the Looking Glass: Picturing the Queen’s Two Bodies\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eLouis Montrose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Royal Flesh, Gender and the Construction of Monarchy\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRachel Weil\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II: TRANSGRESSING THE BODY NATURAL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAbby E. Zanger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Posterity and the Body of the Princess in German Court Funeral Books\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJill Bepler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e ‘Madame, Ma Chère Fille’ – ‘Dearest Child’: Letters from Imperial Mothers to Royal Daughters\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRegina Schulte\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART III: QUEENS OF MODERNITY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Queen Margherita (1851–1926): 'The Only Man in the House of Savoy'\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eCatherine Brice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e The Double Skin: Imperial Fashion in the Nineteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJuliane Vogel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e Theatrical Monarchy: The Making of Victoria, the Modern Family Queen\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eBernd Weisbrod\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/b\u003e The Unmanly Emperor: Wilhelm II and the Fragility of the Royal Individual\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMartin Kohlrausch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART IV: VISUAL METAMORPHOSES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/b\u003e The ‘Berlin’ Nefertiti Bust: Imperial Fantasies in Twentieth-Century German Archaeological Discourse\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eClaudia Breger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/b\u003e Imagined Queens between Heaven and Hell: Representations of Grace Kelly and Romy Schneider\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAlexis Schwarzenbach\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 15.\u003c\/b\u003e Queer Queen: Elizabeth I in Sally Potter’s Film Orlando\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eKatharina Sykora\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042966536535,"sku":"9781845451592","price":25.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845451592.jpg?v=1750956440","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-body-of-the-queen-gender-and-rule-in-the-courtly-world-1500-2000-9781845451592","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}