Sartorial politics in early modern Europe : fashioning women /
For women at the early modern courts, clothing and jewelry were essential elements in their political arsenal, enabling them to signal their dynastic value, to promote loyalty to their marital court and to advance political agendas. This is the first collection of essays to examine how elite women i...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
[2019]
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| Series: | Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 ;
12. |
| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv10kmg51 |
| Summary: | For women at the early modern courts, clothing and jewelry were essential elements in their political arsenal, enabling them to signal their dynastic value, to promote loyalty to their marital court and to advance political agendas. This is the first collection of essays to examine how elite women in early modern Europe marshalled clothing and jewelry for political ends. With essays encompassing women who traversed courts in Denmark, Finland, England, France, Germany, Habsburg Austria, Poland-Lithuania, Italy, Spain and Portugal, the contributions cover a broad range of elite women from different courts and religious backgrounds as well as varying noble ranks |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-332) and index |
| ISBN: | 9789048537242 904853724X 9789462986008 9462986002 |