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Author Brown, Cynthia Jane

Title The queen's library : image-making at the court of Anne of Brittany, 1477-1514 / Cynthia J. Brown
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 402 pages) : illustrations
Series Material texts.
Contents Rituals of entry : women and books in performance -- Female patronage and the politics of personification allegory -- Women famous and infamous : court controversies about female virtues -- Famous women in mourning : trials and tribulations -- Women mourned
Summary In The Queen's Library, Cynthia J. Brown examines the cultural issues surrounding female modes of empowerment and book production in late medieval and early Renaissance France
Analysis "Multi-User"
Notes OldControl:muse9780812204902
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-392) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Anne, of Brittany, Queen, consort of Louis XII, King of France, 1476-1514 -- Library
SUBJECT Anne, of Brittany, Consort of Louis XII, King of France, 1476-1514 -- Library
Anne, of Brittany, Queen, consort of Louis XII, King of France, 1476-1514. fast (OCoLC)fst01800545
Subject Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500.
Women and literature -- Political aspects
Women -- Books and reading -- Political aspects
Queens -- Books and reading -- Political aspects
Books and reading -- History -- 16th century
Books and reading -- History -- To 1500
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
Books and reading.
Libraries.
Queens -- Books and reading -- Political aspects.
Women -- Books and reading -- Political aspects.
Women -- Middle Ages.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812204902
0812204905
1283896850
9781283896856