Becoming a Queen in Early Modern Europe: East and West

By Katarzyna Kosior

Queens of Poland are conspicuously absent from the study of European queenship-an absence which, together with early modern Poland's marginal place in the historiography, results in a picture of European royal culture that can only be lopsided and incomplete. Katarzyna Kosior cuts through persistent stereotypes of an East-West dichotomy and a culturally isolated early modern Poland to offer a groundbreaking comparative study of royal ceremony in Poland and France. The ceremonies of becoming a Jagiellonian or Valois queen, analysed in their larger European context, illuminate the connections that bound together monarchical Europe. These ceremonies are a gateway to a fuller understanding of European royal culture, demonstrating that it is impossible to make claims about European queenship without considering eastern Europe.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030118479
• ISBN13: 9783030118471
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"