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"Early Modern Dynastic Marriages and Cultural Transfer examines marriage as an important agent of cultural transfer, emphasizing how marriages could lead to the creation of a cosmopolitan culture, common to the elites of Europe. These essays focus on the personal and domestic dimensions of early modern European court life, examining such areas as women's devotional practices, fashion, patronage, and culinary traditions"--

This essay reflects on the many different strategies involved in translation, which is both a linguistic and a cultural-historical strategy. Examples from the Middle Ages and the Modern Age are adduced to illustrate the huge impact which translations have had on peoples and societies throughout time.

Dynastic marriage in the Europe of the ancien régime is built upon the assumption that a high-born woman will leave her natal family and the territory she grew up in and travel to the court and territory of her spouse. Were these foreign-born queens consort able to graft elements that they had brought with them onto the culture they found when they arrived in their new country and so create a new cultural synthesis? What elements from their marital court did they send back home? In other words, did these women function as agents of cultural transfer between their natal and their marital courts, and to what extent was this an ongoing process? What were the factors—personal and political—that enabled one queen to be an active cultural agent and another not? What theories of cultural transfer are useful in examining the influence of these queens? Are there specific features of court culture that distinguish cultural transfer between courts from other cases of transfer? By the mid-eighteenth century is the influence of France so pervasive that the court has become a transnational space? The example chosen to illuminate these questions is Maria Amalia, Princess of Saxony and Poland (1724–1760), who on her marriage in 1738 became Queen of the Two Sicilies and from 1759 was Queen of Spain.

Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Acknowledgments -- Gillian R. Overing and Ulrike Wiethaus: Introduction: The Making of American/Medieval -- Medievalism and the American/Medieval -- American/Medieval: The Challenge of Definition -- A/M: Old Trauma, New Archives, and Creatures on the Move -- New Archives -- Creatures on the Move -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Part One: Old Trauma -- Tina Marie Boyer: Medieval Imaginations and Internet Role-Playing Games -- Introduction -- Slender Man -- American Imaginations of the Medieval and Slender Man -- Bibliography -- Sol Miguel-Prendes: Medieval Iberian Studies: Borders, Bridges, Fences -- Boundaries -- Bridges -- Fences -- Bibliography -- Ulrike Wiethaus: "Yet another group of cowboys riding around the same old rock": Religion and the German-American Genesis of a Capitalist Stereotype -- Introduction -- From Mammon to Letzter Mensch -- Indigeneity and Doomed Pre-capitalist Wholeness -- The Natural Habitat, Race, and Sexual Threat of Homo capitalisticus -- The Puritan Spirit and the Desires of the Id -- Contemporary American Mutations of Medieval DNA -- Bibliography -- Part Two: New Archives -- Joshua Davies: "Beyond the Profane": Machine Gothic and the Cultural Memory of the Future -- Gothic Origins -- American Gothic -- Railroad Gothic -- Colonial Gothic -- Bibliography -- Mary Kate Hurley: "Scars of History": Game of Thrones and American Origin Stories -- Scars of History: Time, Nostalgia, and the Wounds of the Past -- Scars of Fantasy: Westerosi History and Time's Wounds -- Scars of Time: Martin's "Medieval" World -- Scars of History: Toward the American/Medieval -- Bibliography -- Gale Sigal: At What Price Arthur? Academic Autobiography, Medieval Studies, and the American Medieval -- Introduction -- In the Middle or On the Margins?