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Performing polity : women and agency in the Anglo-French tradition, 1385-1620 / Carolyn P. Collette.

Title
Performing polity : women and agency in the Anglo-French tradition, 1385-1620 / Carolyn P. Collette.
Author
Collette, Carolyn P.
Publication
Turnhout : Brepols ; 2006.

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Description
218 p.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Medieval women : texts and contexts ; volume 15
Uniform Title
Medieval women--texts and contexts ; 15.
Subject
  • Women > England > Social conditions
  • Women and literature > England > History > To 1500
  • Women and literature > England > History > 16th century
  • English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism
  • English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
  • French literature > To 1500 > History and criticism
  • Sex role > History
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-210) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Ch. 1. Christine de Pizan : mapping the routes to agency -- Ch. 2. Philippe de Mezieres, the good wife, and le bien publique -- Ch. 3. Political Griselda : L'Estorie de Griseldis and Nicole Oresme's translation of Aristotle's Politics -- Ch. 4. The power of the virgin : gaining the right to speak -- Ch. 5. Anne of Bohemia and the intercessory modes of Ricardian England -- Ch. 6. Catherine of Aragon, a New Griselda for a new polity -- Ch. 7. 'Nowe leaft of' : the York pageants of the death, assumption, and coronation of the virgin -- Ch. 8. Walter Triumphans : performing polity in late Tudor-Stuart England.
ISBN
2503518001 (hbk.)
OCLC
  • 69733199
  • SCSB-11782588
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library