Becoming a Queen in Early Modern Europe: East and West - Hardcover
by Katarzyna Kosior (Author)
1. Introduction
2. Royal Weddings: Protocol, Identity and Emotion
3. Coronation: Consort to Royal Power
4. Political Culture and Rhetoric of Queenship
5. Conception, Childbirth and Motherhood: Performing a Royal Family
6. Conclusion
Queens of Poland are conspicuously absent from the study of European queenship--an absence which, together with early modern Poland's marginal place in the historiography, results in a picture of European royal culture that can only be lopsided and incomplete. Katarzyna Kosior cuts through persistent stereotypes of an East-West dichotomy and a culturally isolated early modern Poland to offer a groundbreaking comparative study of royal ceremony in Poland and France. The ceremonies of becoming a Jagiellonian or Valois queen, analysed in their larger European context, illuminate the connections that bound together monarchical Europe. These ceremonies are a gateway to a fuller understanding of European royal culture, demonstrating that it is impossible to make claims about European queenship without considering eastern Europe.
Katarzyna Kosior is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Northumbria University, UK.
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