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Title The Politics of Female Households : Ladies-in-Waiting Across Early Modern Europe / edited by Nadine Akkerman and Birgit Houben
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Rulers & elites : comparative studies in governance ; volume 4
Rulers & elites ; v. 4.
Contents Tudor England. -- Petticoats and politics: Elisabeth Parr and female agency at the early Elizabethan court / Helen Graham-Matheson -- Jane Dormer's recipe for politics: a refuge household in Spain for Mary Tudor's ladies-in-waiting / Hannah Leah Crumme -- Habsburgs. -- The imperial court in Vienna. -- Ladies-in-waiting at the imperial court of Vienna from 1550 to 1700: structures, responsibilities and career patterns / Katrin Keller -- "In service to my lady, the empress, as I have done every other day of my life": Margarita of Cardona, Baroness of Dietrichstein and lady-in-waiting of Maria of Austria / Vanessa de Cruz Medina -- The court in the Spanish Netherlands. -- Women and the politics of access at the court of Brussels: The infanta Isabella's camareras mayores (1598-1633) / Birgit Houben and Dries Raeymaekers -- Dwarfs-and a loca-as ladies' maids at the Spanish Habsburg courts / Janet Ravenscroft -- France. -- 'A stable of whores'? the 'flying squadron' of Catherine de Medici / Una McIlvenna -- In search of the ladies-in-waiting and maids of honour of Mary, Queen of Scots: a prosoprographical analysis of the female household / Rosalind K. Marshall -- Clients and friends: the ladies-in-waiting at the court of Anne of Austria (1615-66) / Oliver Mallick -- The Stuart courts. -- Perceptions of influence: the Catholic diplomacy of Queen Anna and her ladies, 1601-1604 / Cynthia Fry -- The goddess of the household: the masquing politics of Lucy Harington-Russell, Countess of Bedford / Nadine Akkerman -- The female bedchamber of Queen Henrietta Maria: politics familial networks and policy, 1626-40 / Sara J. Wolfson -- The Swedish court. -- Living in the house of power: women at the early modern Swedish court / Fabian Persson -- Epilogue the politics of female households: afterthoughts / Jeroen Duindam
Summary This multi-disciplinary collection of essays is the first cohesive attempt to integrate ladies-in-waiting into the master narrative of court studies. It provides evidence for the multitudinous ways in which 'women above stairs' influenced the politics and culture of their times
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Ladies-in-waiting -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
Ladies-in-waiting -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
Ladies-in-waiting -- Europe -- Biography
Courts and courtiers -- History -- 16th century
Courts and courtiers -- History -- 17th century
Women -- Europe -- Biography
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Courts and courtiers
Ladies-in-waiting
Politics and government
Women
Hofdame
SUBJECT Europe -- Politics and government -- 1492-1648. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045736
Subject Europe
Europa
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Akkerman, Nadine.
Houben, Birgit.
ISBN 9789004258396
9004258396
130608251X
9781306082518
9004236066
9789004236066