Author: Una McIlvenna
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317059328
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici explores Catherine de Medici's 'flying squadron', the legendary ladies-in-waiting of the sixteenth-century French queen mother who were alleged to have been ordered to seduce politically influential men for their mistress's own Machiavellian purposes. Branded a 'cabal of cuckoldry' by a contemporary critic, these women were involved in scandals that have encouraged a perception, which continues in much academic literature, of the late Valois court as debauched and corrupt. Rather than trying to establish the guilt or innocence of the accused, Una McIlvenna here focuses on representations of the scandals in popular culture and print, and on the collective portrayal of the women in the libelous and often pornographic literature that circulated information about the court. She traces the origins of this material to the all-male intellectual elite of the parlementaires: lawyers and magistrates who expressed their disapproval of Catherine's political and religious decisions through misogynist pamphlets and verse that targeted the women of her entourage. Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici reveals accusations of poisoning and incest to be literary tropes within a tradition of female defamation dating to classical times that encouraged a collective and universalizing notion of women as sexually voracious, duplicitous and, ultimately, dangerous. In its focus on manuscript and early print culture, and on the transition from a world of orality to one dominated by literacy and textuality, this study has relevance for scholars of literary history, particularly those interested in pamphlet and libel culture.
Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici
Author: Una McIlvenna
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317059328
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici explores Catherine de Medici's 'flying squadron', the legendary ladies-in-waiting of the sixteenth-century French queen mother who were alleged to have been ordered to seduce politically influential men for their mistress's own Machiavellian purposes. Branded a 'cabal of cuckoldry' by a contemporary critic, these women were involved in scandals that have encouraged a perception, which continues in much academic literature, of the late Valois court as debauched and corrupt. Rather than trying to establish the guilt or innocence of the accused, Una McIlvenna here focuses on representations of the scandals in popular culture and print, and on the collective portrayal of the women in the libelous and often pornographic literature that circulated information about the court. She traces the origins of this material to the all-male intellectual elite of the parlementaires: lawyers and magistrates who expressed their disapproval of Catherine's political and religious decisions through misogynist pamphlets and verse that targeted the women of her entourage. Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici reveals accusations of poisoning and incest to be literary tropes within a tradition of female defamation dating to classical times that encouraged a collective and universalizing notion of women as sexually voracious, duplicitous and, ultimately, dangerous. In its focus on manuscript and early print culture, and on the transition from a world of orality to one dominated by literacy and textuality, this study has relevance for scholars of literary history, particularly those interested in pamphlet and libel culture.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317059328
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici explores Catherine de Medici's 'flying squadron', the legendary ladies-in-waiting of the sixteenth-century French queen mother who were alleged to have been ordered to seduce politically influential men for their mistress's own Machiavellian purposes. Branded a 'cabal of cuckoldry' by a contemporary critic, these women were involved in scandals that have encouraged a perception, which continues in much academic literature, of the late Valois court as debauched and corrupt. Rather than trying to establish the guilt or innocence of the accused, Una McIlvenna here focuses on representations of the scandals in popular culture and print, and on the collective portrayal of the women in the libelous and often pornographic literature that circulated information about the court. She traces the origins of this material to the all-male intellectual elite of the parlementaires: lawyers and magistrates who expressed their disapproval of Catherine's political and religious decisions through misogynist pamphlets and verse that targeted the women of her entourage. Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici reveals accusations of poisoning and incest to be literary tropes within a tradition of female defamation dating to classical times that encouraged a collective and universalizing notion of women as sexually voracious, duplicitous and, ultimately, dangerous. In its focus on manuscript and early print culture, and on the transition from a world of orality to one dominated by literacy and textuality, this study has relevance for scholars of literary history, particularly those interested in pamphlet and libel culture.
1777-1817
Author: Kress Library of Business and Economics
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Languages : en
Pages : 472
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French Political Pamphlets, 1547-1648
Author: Robert O. Lindsay
Publisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Publisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature: Through 1720
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Languages : en
Pages : 508
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Supplement, 1473-1848
Author: Kress Library of Business and Economics
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Catalogue, with Data Upon Cognate Items in Other Harvard Libraries: Supplement, 1473-1848
Author: Kress Library of Business and Economics
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Ordonnance du Roy et de sa court des monnoyes, contenant les pris et poix, tant des monnoyes de France que estrangeres, d'or et d'argent, ausquelles ledict seigneur a donné cours en son royaume, pays, terres et seigneuries de son obeissance
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Ordonnance du roy et de sa cour des monnoyes, contenant les prix et poids tant des monnoyes de France qu'estrangères d'or et d'argent aus quelles le dict seigneur a donné cours et mise en son royaume, pays terres et seigneuries de son obéissance
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Ordonnance du roy et de sa court des monnoyes, contenant les prix et poix, tant des monnoyes de France qu'estrangeres, d'or et d'argent, ausquelles ledict seigneur à doné cours en son royaume, pays, terres et seigneuries e son obeissance
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