Author : Katarzyna Kosior
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ISBN 13 : 9783030118495
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)
Book Synopsis Becoming a Queen in Early Modern Europe by : Katarzyna Kosior
Download or read book Becoming a Queen in Early Modern Europe written by Katarzyna Kosior and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.