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Medici Women : The Making of a Dynasty in Grand Ducal Tuscany / Edited by Giovanna Benadusi and Judith C. Brown ; Italian essays translated by Monica Chojnacka.
- Title
- Medici Women : The Making of a Dynasty in Grand Ducal Tuscany / Edited by Giovanna Benadusi and Judith C. Brown ; Italian essays translated by Monica Chojnacka.
- Publication
- Toronto : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2015.
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- Description
- 380 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- The Medici grand ducal family and the court it created in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have long fascinated historians and the general public. Until recently, however, the women who married into the family or were born into it were relegated to the margins of history. Though long acknowledged as wives and mothers who contributed to the propagation of the Medici line, their function in the creation of the court, in shaping its culture, in contributing to the transformation of the state from a city-state republic to a principality, and in establishing the Medici's place in the European network of dynastic rulers tended to be either ignored or maligned. It is only in the last decade or so that scholars have begun to reassess their roles and achievements. The aim of this book is to advance that reassessment.--
- Series Statement
- Essays and studies ; 36
- Uniform Title
- Essays and studies (Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies) 36.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / Judith C. Brown -- Eleonora di Toledo, regency, and state formation in Tuscany / Natalie Tomas -- Isabella de' Medici : unraveling the legend / Elisabetta Mori -- Joanna of Austria and the negotiation of power and identity at the Florentine court / Sarah Bercusson -- Christine of Lorraine and medicine at the Medici court / Sheila Barker -- Foreign mothers and the international education of Medici children : Christine of Lorraine and Maria Maddalena of Austria at the Medici court / Maria Pia Paoli -- Margherita de' Medici Farnese : a Medici princess at the Farnese court / Adelina Modesti -- The gender politics of Vittoria della Rovere / Giovanna Benadusi -- Connected courts : Violante Beatrice of Bavaria in Florence and Siena / Giulia Calvi -- Anna Maria Luisa, electress palatine : last art patron and collector of the Medici dynasty / Stefano Casciu -- Between dynastic strategies and civic myth : Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici and Florence as the new Athens / Marcello Verga.
- ISBN
- 9780772721808 (pbk.)
- 0772721807 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2015460330
- OCLC
- 903423091
- SCSB-12809424
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library