Remembering queens and kings of early modern England and France : reputation, reinterpretation, and reincarnation /
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 queens and kings were remembered, represented and reincarnated in a wide range of sources, from contemporary pageants, plays and visual...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2019]
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| Series: | Queenship and power.
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| Summary: | 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 queens and kings 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 331 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783030223434 3030223434 |