Queens within Networks of Family and Court Connections

Edited by Aleksandra Skrzypietz. The volume presents seven queens from the early modern era in Europe (Queen Barbara Radziwiil, Anna Jagiellons, Queen Anne of Austria, Louise-Marie, Queen Marie Casimire, Maria Clementina Sobieska, Marie Leszczyriska). Seven contributions highlight the respective queen‘s role within the complex web of court and family arrangements. Individual agency as well as the social structures of the courtly world of intrigue and shifting coalitions determined whether a queen was able to retain her position of power or lost it. Often enough, they became the victims of their own kind, new and old, in these struggles for power. 135 Seiten, gebunden (Böhlau Verlag 2022) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear

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