Una McIlvenna

Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on representations of scandals in popular culture and print, Una McIlvenna explores Catherine de Medici's legendary 'flying squadron', the ladies-in-waiting of the sixteenth-century French queen mother who allegedly seduced politically influential men to further their mistress's Machiavellian purposes. In tracing how the legend came about and was perpetuated, she reveals accusations of poisoning and incest to be literary tropes within a tradition of female defamation dating to classical times.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 523g
• ISBN-13: 9781472428219
• ISBN-10: 1472428218
• Artikelnr.: 45058619

Autorenporträt

Una McIlvenna is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Early Modern Studies, Australian National University'

Rezensionen

"McIlvenna's case studies confirm how scandal literature shaped individual reputation, but more broadly, how it provided the contours for derogatory understandings of whole groups of people. Women at the Valois court were rarely seen in a positive light. This is the sting in the tail: Catherine de' Medici may have done all she could, but her women, the women of the court, and women more generally were nonetheless routinely demonized, disrespected, and dismissed in print and in the public eye. Historians, McIlvenna reminds us, don't have to buy the scurrilous version of the story, but seeing through it does not make it go away."

- Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University, H-France Review