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In: Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain
In: History workshop journal: HWJ, Band 87, S. 283-289
ISSN: 1477-4569
In: Social history, Band 38, Heft 1, S. 95-98
ISSN: 1470-1200
In: Journal of church and state: JCS, Band 40, Heft 4, S. 902-903
ISSN: 0021-969X
Weil reviews 'Conversion, Politics and Religion in England, 1580-1625,' by Michael C. Questier.
In: Journal of church and state: JCS, Band 40, Heft 3, S. 683-684
ISSN: 0021-969X
Weil reviews 'Conversion, Politics and Religion in England, 1580-1624' by Michael C. Questier.
In: The Body of the Queen, S. 88-100
In: Journal of church and state: JCS, Band 40, Heft 4, S. 902
ISSN: 0021-969X
In: Journal of church and state: JCS, Band 40, Heft 3, S. 683
ISSN: 0021-969X
In: Gender & history, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 226-243
ISSN: 1468-0424
Book Reviews in this Article:Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: the religious significance of food to medieval women.Judith M. Bennett, Women in the Medieval English Countryside: Gender and Household in Brigstock Before the Plague.Susan Dwyer Amussen, An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern England.Martin Ingram, Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570‐1640.Franca Pieroni Bortolotti, Sul movimento politico delle donne. Scritti inediti.Alison Prentice, Paula Bourne, Gail Cuthbert Brandt, Beth Light, Wendy Mitchinson and Naomi Black, Canadian Women: A History.Patricia Hollis, Ladies Elect, Women in English Local Government, 1865‐1914.Ann Morley with Liz Stanley, The Life and Death of Emily Wilding Davison. A Biographical Detective Story, with Gertrude Colmore's The Life of Emily Davison'.Susan Kingsley Kent, Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860‐1914.
How many "bodies" does a queen have? What is the significance of multiple "bodies"? How has the gendered body been constructed and perceived within the context of the European courts during the course of the past five centuries? These are some of the questions addressed in this anthology, a contribution to the ongoing debate provoked by Ernst H. Kantorowicz in his seminal work from 1957, The King's Two Bodies. On the basis of both textual self-presentations and visual representations a gradual transformation of the queen appears: A sacred/providential figure in medieval and early modern period, an ideal bourgeois wife during the late-18th and 19th Centuries, and a star-like (re-) presentation of royalty during the past century. Twentieth-century mass media has produced the celebrity and film star queens personified by the contested and enigmatic Nefertiti of ancient Egypt, the mysterious Elizabeth (Sisi) of Austria, Grace Kelly as Queen of both Hollywood and Monaco and Romy Schneider as the invented Empress