Queenship In Europe 16601815 The Role Of The Consort Clarissa Campbell Orr by Clarissa Campbell Orr 9780521814225, 0521814227 instant download after payment.

This pioneering survey of Court cultures in the age of the High Baroque through to
the age of Enlightenment uses the role of the queen consort as the principal means of
inquiry. The fifteen authors include distinguished scholars and new researchers from
Britain, the USA, and the continent.
The principal themes explored are the consort’s formal and informal power, her
religious role, and her cultural patronage. The book reveals the dynamics of dynastic
policy as Courts used their family linkages to advance themselves in the hierarchy of
European powers, and suggests how women sometimes formed their own networks.
The Courts surveyed include those of France, Spain, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, the
Imperial Court at Vienna, and the three German electorates linked to monarchies:
Brandenburg-Prussia, Saxony-Poland, and Hanover-Great Britain. Also included is
the duchy of Wiirttemberg, which achieved royal status by the end of the period, and
Savoy, which attained it through acquiring Piedmont at the beginning.