The Embodied Court in the Premodern World
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Courts and Courtiers in a Global Context, vol. 5
Re-Viewing Claude de France
Cynthia J. Brown, Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier (eds)
- Pages: approx. 400 p.
- Size:178 x 254 mm
- Illustrations:55 b/w, 30 col., 2 tables b/w.
- Language(s):English, French
- Publication Year:2027
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- ISBN: 978-2-503-61666-7
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This book sets out to reclaim and restore the legacy of the short-lived, oft-forgotten, yet remarkable Queen Claude de France
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BIO
Cynthia Brown, Distinguished Professor of French Emerita at the University of California, Santa Barbara, specializes in late medieval literature and culture, with a focus on female patronage and the medieval book culture, text-image relationships, and text-editing.
Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier, Professor of Art History Emerita at The American University of Paris, specializes in female patronage at the French Renaissance court, with studies of the agency of queens, duchesses, and other great ladies on and around the royal artistic scene.
Summary
The nine-year reign of Queen-Duchess Claude de France (1499-1524), heiress of King Louis XII and Queen-Duchess Anne of Brittany, has been largely absent from History. This collection, which aims to restore the reputation of this oft-neglected queen of France, duchess of Brittany, countess of Blois, is the first to present in one groundbreaking publication a comprehensive, interdisciplinary analysis of Claude’s legacy. An international panel of scholars examines Claude’s reception, household, politics, cultural entourage, spiritual leanings, and interaction on the European stage and beyond through the lens of diplomacy, dynastic politics, and patronage of the arts in an age of seismic religious shifts. Claude’s prominence in contemporary media, including manuscripts, printed books, foreign ambassadors’ correspondence, and royal entry theaters testifies to the indisputable visibility of her royal persona as consort to Francis I, despite the power that accrued to the king’s mother, Louise of Savoy. Claude ensured male dynastic succession, thus fulfilling her most crucial role in the land of Salic Law, but also figured centrally in the transmission of her mother’s gendered political and intellectual legacy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Cynthia J. Brown and Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier
The evolution of Claude de France’s political and cultural image
Une reine des prunes
Elisabeth Latrémolière, Conservatrice en cheffe honoraire du patrimoine Château de Blois
La politique de Claude de France
Aubrée David-Chapy, Université Paris-Sorbonne
Claude de France: The (in)visibility of a short-lived Queen
Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier, The American University of Paris
Claude de France’s networks Outside the Realm
Claude de France and Anne and Madeleine de La Tour d’Auvergne
Pauline van Thienen, École des chartes, Paris
Claude de France et les courants réformistes entre Milan et Rome : le témoignage des livres dédiés et commandes artistiques
Gwladys Le Cuff, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
The Court of Savoy and the Court of France in the Age of Claude
Daniela Cereia, Archivio di Stato di Torino
"Chief de feminine grace": Claude de France and her Influence on Anne Boleyn
Tracy Adams, University of Auckland
Claude de France’s cultural universe
Claude de France and Music
Mary Beth Winn, State University of New York, Albany
Family Matters: Claude’s Relations and the Marots
Cynthia J. Brown, University of California Santa Barbara
"Au commandement de la royne": Anne de Graville and Women’s Literary Networks in the Entourage of Claude of France
Elizabeth L’Estrange, University of Birmingham
The Tragic Deaths of Claude de France’s Children and the Processing of Grief Through Poetry
Kelly Peebles, Clemson University
The Plague in the Age of Claude de France
Brenton Hobart, The American University of Paris
