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Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture (Queenship and Power) - Softcover

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9783319886565: Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture (Queenship and Power)
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ISBN 10: 3319886568 ISBN 13: 9783319886565
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Pop culture portrayals of medieval and early modern monarchs are rife with tension between authenticity and modern mores, producing anachronisms such as a feminist Queen Isabel (in RTVE’s Isabel) and a lesbian Queen Christina (in The Girl King). This book examines these anachronisms as a dialogue between premodern and postmodern ideas about gender and sexuality, raising questions of intertemporality, the interpretation of history, and the dangers of presentism. Covering a range of famous and lesser-known European monarchs on screen, from Elizabeth I to Muhammad XII of Granada, this book addresses how the lives of powerful women and men have been mythologized in order to appeal to today’s audiences. The contributors interrogate exactly what is at stake in these portrayals; namely, our understanding of premodern rulers, the gender and sexual ideologies they navigated, and those that we navigate today. 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Janice North is an independent scholar and specialist in medieval and Golden Age Iberian literature.

Karl C. Alvestad is Lecturer in History at the University of Winchester, UK. 

Elena Woodacre is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern European History at the University of Winchester, UK. 

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Pop culture portrayals of medieval and early modern monarchs are rife with tension between authenticity and modern mores, producing anachronisms such as a feminist Queen Isabel (in RTVE’s Isabel) and a lesbian Queen Christina (in The Girl King). This book examines these anachronisms as a dialogue between premodern and postmodern ideas about gender and sexuality, raising questions of intertemporality, the interpretation of history, and the dangers of presentism. Covering a range of famous and lesser-known European monarchs on screen, from Elizabeth I to Muhammad XII of Granada, this book addresses how the lives of powerful women and men have been mythologized in order to appeal to today’s audiences. The contributors interrogate exactly what is at stake in these portrayals; namely, our understanding of premodern rulers, the gender and sexual ideologies they navigated, and those that we navigate today. 

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Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3319886568
ISBN 13 
9783319886565
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
376
Herausgeber
North Janice, Alvestad Karl C., Woodacre Elena
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