Una McIlvenna

Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

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: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317059318
• Artikelnr.: 45096003

Autorenporträt

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

Rezensionen

'This is an important study that explores how rumour and reputation were carefully constructed, circulated and controlled in the high intensity environment of the Valois court of late sixteenth-century France. McIlvenna provides a much-needed analysis of gendered strategies of information management, occurring through social networks of communication sustained in oral, epistolary, and print forms as well as through actions. Significantly, McIlvenna places women's own experiences in the foreground, not only providing insights into the origins and nature of the vicious propaganda that has dominated the memory of their activities, but also analysing the evidence of female practices to manage its effects on their lives and historical legacy.' Susan Broomhall, The University of Western Australia