Description |
1 online resource (xi, 283 pages) : colour illustrations |
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The other voice in early modern Europe. The Toronto series ; 35 |
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Other voice in early modern Europe. Toronto series ; 35.
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Contents |
Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Letters of Catherine de Médicis, Selections -- Relazioni of the Venetian Ambassadors on the Affairs of France in the Sixteenth Century, Selections -- Marvelous Discourse on the Life, Actions, and Deportment of Catherine de Médicis, Queen Mother (1576), Selections -- Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantôme, "Second Discourse on the Queen, Mother of Our Last Kings, Catherine de Médicis," Selections. From Book of Ladies, Poetry, and Funerary Writings -- Appendix |
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"Letters of Naturalization for Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, and Catherine, His Daughter" -- "Copy of Letters Sent to the Queen Mother by One of Her Servants after the Death of the Late King Henri II" -- An Alarm for the French and Their Neighbors. Composed by Eusèbe Philadelphe Cosmopolite, in the Form of Dialogues, Selections -- The Tocsin, against the Slaughterers and Perpetrators of Confusion in France (1577), Selections -- Oration Given at the Funeral Rites of the Queen Mother of the King by Monsieur Renaud de Beaune, Selections -- Etienne Pasquier on the Death of the Queen Mother |
Notes |
Translated from the French |
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"Portraits of the Queen Mother brings together selected texts contemporary to Catherine's queenship including ambassadorial reports, polemical pamphlets, and panegyric biography, alongside Catherine's own letters to show how the authority of this queen was carefully constructed and challenged through several important textual genres of the period."--Page 2 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-267) and index |
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Translated from the French |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ITER, viewed January 28, 2020) |
Subject |
Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589 -- Correspondence
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SUBJECT |
Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589 fast |
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Queens -- France -- Biography
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Mothers -- France -- Biography
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Mothers
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Politics and government
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Queens
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SUBJECT |
France -- Politics and government -- 16th century -- Sources
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Subject |
France
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Biographies
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Personal correspondence
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Sources
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Chang, Leah Redmond, 1973- translator
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Kong, Katherine, translator.
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Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589.
Correspondence. Selections. English
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Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, issuing body.
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Iter (Toronto, Ont.), issuing body.
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LC no. |
2015301173 |
ISBN |
0772721734 |
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0772721726 |
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9780772721723 |
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9780772721730 |
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