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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Request in advance | HQ1149.G7 C65 2006 | Off-site |
Details
- 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