Author : Katarzyna Kosior
Release : 2019
Genre : Europe-History-1492-
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 495/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Becoming a Queen in Early Modern Europe by : Katarzyna Kosior
Download or read book Becoming a Queen in Early Modern Europe written by Katarzyna Kosior. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queens of Poland are conspicuously absent from the study of European queenship--an absence which, together with early modern Poland's marginal place in the historiography, results in a picture of European royal culture that can only be lopsided and incomplete. Katarzyna Kosior cuts through persistent stereotypes of an East-West dichotomy and a culturally isolated early modern Poland to offer a groundbreaking comparative study of royal ceremony in Poland and France. The ceremonies of becoming a Jagiellonian or Valois queen, analysed in their larger European context, illuminate the connections that bound together monarchical Europe. These ceremonies are a gateway to a fuller understanding of European royal culture, demonstrating that it is impossible to make claims about European queenship without considering eastern Europe.