This book explores the diplomatic role of women in early modern European dynastic networks through the study of Aragonese marriage alliances in late fifteenth-century Italy and Hungary. It challenges the frequent erasure of dynastic wives from diplomatic and political narratives to show how elite women were diplomatically active agents for two dynasties.
Chapters analyze the lives of Eleonora (1450-1493) and Beatrice d'Aragona (1457-1508), daughters of King Ferrante of Naples (1423-1494), and how they negotiated their natal and marital relationships to achieve diplomatic outcomes. While Ferrante expected his daughters to follow paternal imperatives and to remain engaged in collective dynastic strategy, the extent of his kinswomen's continued participation in familial projects was dependent on the nature of their marital relationships. The book traces the access to these relationships that enabled courtly women to re-enter the diplomatic space after marriage, not as objects, but as agents, with their own strategies, politics, and schemes.
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Bibliographische Angaben
Auflage
1/2022
Copyrightjahr
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-64189-242-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-64189-243-8
Verlag
Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
Reihe
Gender and Power in the Premodern World
Sprache
Englisch
Seiten
122
Produkttyp
Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
KapitelSeiten
CONTENTS Kein Zugriff
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Kein Zugriff
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Kein Zugriff
ABBREVIATIONS Kein Zugriff
CHRONOLOGY Kein Zugriff
INTRODUCTION Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 20
Chapter One: DYNASTIC WIVES, WAR, AND MEDIATION Kein Zugriff Seiten 21 - 42
Chapter Two: SISTERLY NEGOTIATION Kein Zugriff Seiten 43 - 62
Chapter Three: A FAMILY DIVIDED Kein Zugriff Seiten 63 - 82
Chapter Four: FEMALE AGENCY IN EXILE Kein Zugriff Seiten 83 - 94
CONCLUSION Kein Zugriff Seiten 95 - 96
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY Kein Zugriff Seiten 97 - 100
INDEX Kein Zugriff Seiten 101 - 106
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