Caterina Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus
Author : Peter W. Edbury
Publisher : Twayne Publishers
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 38,63 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Cyprus
ISBN :
Author : Peter W. Edbury
Publisher : Twayne Publishers
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 38,63 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Cyprus
ISBN :
Author : D. Barrett-Graves
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 11,27 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1137303107
This study examines representations of early modern female consorts and regnants via extra-literary emblematics such as paintings, jewelry, miniature portraits, carvings, placards, masques, funerary monuments, and imprese.
Author : Carolyn Harris
Publisher : Springer
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 113749168X
Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I of England were two of the most notorious queens in European history. They both faced accusations that they had transgressed social, gender and regional norms, and attempted to defend themselves against negative reactions to their behavior. Each queen engaged with the debates of her time concerning the place of women within their families, religion, politics, the public sphere and court culture and attempted to counter criticism of her foreign origins and political influence. The impeachment of Henrietta Maria in 1643 and trial and execution of Marie Antoinette in 1793 were also trials of monarchical government that shaped the English Civil Wars and French Revolution.
Author : S. Jansen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0230602118
In The Monstrous Regiment of Women , Sharon Jansen explores the case for and against female rule by examining the arguments made by theorists from Sir John Fortescue (1461) through Bishop Bossuet (1680) interweaving their arguments with references to the most well-known early modern queens. The 'story' of early modern European political history looks very different if, instead of focusing on kings and their sons, we see successive generations of powerful women and the shifting political alliances of the period from a very different, and revealing, perspective.
Author : John Nicolas Coldstream
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Estelle Paranque
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 3319571591
This collection brings together essays examining the international influence of queens, other female rulers, and their representatives from 1450 through 1700, an era of expanding colonial activity and sea trade. As Europe rose in prominence geopolitically, a number of important women—such as Queen Elizabeth I of England, Catherine de Medici, Caterina Cornaro of Cyprus, and Isabel Clara Eugenia of Austria—exerted influence over foreign affairs. Traditionally male-dominated spheres such as trade, colonization, warfare, and espionage were, sometimes for the first time, under the control of powerful women. This interdisciplinary volume examines how they navigated these activities, and how they are represented in literature. By highlighting the links between female power and foreign affairs, Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe contributes to a fuller understanding of early modern queenship.
Author : Donna Jo Napoli
Publisher : Wendy Lamb Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 2002-05-14
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0375890076
In 1592, Donata is a noble girl living in a palazzo on the Grand Canal. Girls of her class receive no education and rarely leave the palazzo. In a noble family, only one daughter and one son will be allowed to marry; Donata, like all younger daughters, will be sent to a convent. Donata longs to be tutored like her brothers and to see the Venice she has glimpsed only on the map. What is the world beyond her balcony, beyond what she sees when she glides, veiled, in a gondola down the canal? She dresses as a boy and escapes the palazzo on the Grand Canal to see the world before she is shut away, and to try to find a way to escape her fate. Donata risks everything; she changes her life, and her family’s life, forever when she walks through the door and encounters a Venice she never knew existed.
Author : Francesco Ludovico Maschietto
Publisher : St. Joseph's University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 28,97 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Authors, Italian
ISBN :
"Even in 17th-century Italy, news spread quickly. On June 25, 1678, an enormous crowd that included nobles, knights, city officials, ladies, scholarly men, the diocesan vicar general, and the entire College of Philosophers and Physicians gathered at the University of Padua to witness Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia stand for her oral doctoral examination-the first time in history that a woman had been accorded this privilege! So great was the crowd that the examination had to be moved from the University's College to the cathedral. The bishop's refusal to allow Elena to stand for a degree in theology no doubt increased interest in the grudgingly approved examination in philosophy. Elena's eloquent discourse on two Aristotelian theses so impressed the examining committee that, despite her request for a secret ballot, they voted their approval viva voce to award the Teacher and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. She was the first woman so honored by a university. Maschietto's definitive biography of Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia was originally published in Italian on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of her landmark degree (Padua: Editrice Antenore, 1978). Now more than 25 years later, this meticulously researched biography is available for the first time in English translation. After carefully tracing the lineage of Elena's family, Maschietto tells the fascinating story of her rearing and education, as well as of the high drama of her standing for examination for a doctoral degree. Maschietto also offers a full assessment of Elena's writings, spirituality, and posterity. This book is profusely illustrated with reproductions of paintings and engravings of many of the principal figures who populate Elena's life-story."--Publisher's website.
Author : Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Cyprus
ISBN :
Author : Claude Delaval Cobham
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 34,75 MB
Release : 1895
Category : History
ISBN : 5875320966