Description
Drawing on early modern literature and historical documents, this study investigates the various political, discursive, and symbolic measures employed to negotiate and support female sovereignty by both early modern writers and the rulers themselves. The detailed analysis of the women's responses--or inability to respond--to these strictures underscores the relationship between early modern authors and sovereigns and the complex and vexed situation of European women rulers.
Contributors are Tracy Adams, Anne J. Cruz, Eva Deak, Mary C. Ekman, Catherine L. Howey, Elizabeth Ketner, Carole Levin, Sandra Logan, Magdalena S. Sanchez, Mihoko Suzuki, and Barbara F. Weissberger.
A transnational comparison of women rulers and women's sovereignty throughout Europe
About the Author
Anne J. Cruz is a professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami. Mihoko Suzuki is a professor of English and the director of the Center for the Humanities at the University of Miami.
Reviews
"A rich and rewarding collection of essays."--Renaissance Quarterly
"Complex and intriguing portraits of female sovereigns. . . . a de-idealized, yet non-misogynistic picture of female sovereignty in the early modern era."--Feminist Formations
"This valuable collection of theoretically engaged and empirically grounded essays greatly broadens scholarly understanding of late medieval and early modern women and rulership in Europe, shifting the focus from the masculinist political-religious discussion to a feminine perspective."--Theresa Earenfight, editor of Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Book Information
ISBN 9780252076169
Author Anne J Cruz
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint University of Illinois Press
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 30mm