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 Author
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).

Reviews

"This artfully assembled collection will hopefully spur more research and critical thinking into how culture affects our relationships to the past outside of historiographies." (Anastasia Utke, Royal Studies Journal, Vol. 7 (2), 2020)

Book Information
ISBN 9783030223434
Author Estelle Paranque
Format Hardback
Page Count 331
Imprint Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG