Premodern Rulers and Postmodern ViewersPremodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers

2018-02-01 Janice North

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.

Author: Janice North

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9783319687711

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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.

Memorialising Premodern MonarchsMemorialising Premodern Monarchs

2021-11-22 Gabrielle Storey

their co-rulers is an important task for historians in order to understand the power of the ruler and the governance of ... 2019); Janice North, Karl C. Alvestad, and Elena Woodacre, eds., Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers.

Author: Gabrielle Storey

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783030841300

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This book examines the legacies and depictions of monarchs in an international context, focusing on both self-representation and commemoration by others. Spanning ancient India through to eighteenth-century Russia, this volume offers several case studies to demonstrate trends and patterns in how different societies chose to commemorate and remember their rulers in a variety of mediums. Contributions highlight several lesser known rulers, alongside more famous ones such as Henry VIII of England, to develop a deeper understanding of how memory and monarchy functioned when drawn together. Memorialising Premodern Monarchs brings to the fore the importance of memory and memorialisation when considering the legacies and records of past rulers and their societies, and allows a deeper reflection on how these rulers live on through the historical record and popular culture.

Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and FranceRemembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France

2019-08-06 Estelle Paranque

Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Ricoeur, Paul. Translated by Kathleen Blamey & David Pellauer, Memory, History, Forgetting. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2004, paperback edition 2006.

Author: Estelle Paranque

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9783030223441

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This collection examines the afterlives of early modern English and French rulers. Spanning five centuries of cultural memory, the volume offers case studies of how kings and queens were remembered, represented, and reincarnated in a wide range of sources, from contemporary pageants, plays, and visual art to twenty-first-century television, and from premodern fiction to manga and romance novels. With essays on well-known figures such as Elizabeth I and Marie Antoinette as well as lesser-known monarchs such as Francis II of France and Mary Tudor, Queen of France, Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France brings together reflections on how rulers live on in collective memory.

Queenship in Early Modern EuropeQueenship in Early Modern Europe

2019-12-05 Charles Beem

See Elena Woodacre, “Early Modern Queens on Screen: Victors, Victims, Villains, Virgins, and Viragoes,” Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers, Janice North, Karl C. Alvestad and Elena Woodacre, eds. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, ...

Author: Charles Beem

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781350307179

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Offering a fascinating survey of European queenship from 1500-1800, with each chapter beginning with a discussion of the archetypal queens of Western, Central, Northern, and Eastern Europe, Charles Beem explores the particular nature of the regional forms and functions of queenship – including consorts, queens regnant, dowagers and female regents – while interrogating our understanding of the dynamic operations of queenship as a transnational phenomenon in European history. Incorporating detailed discussions of gender and material culture, this book encourages both instructors and student readers to engage in meaningful further research on queenship. This is an excellent overview of an exciting area of historical research and is the perfect companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students of History with an interest in queens and queenship.

Women on the Edge in Early Modern EuropeWomen on the Edge in Early Modern Europe

2019-02-06 Lisa Hopkins

In Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture, edited by Janice North, Karl C. Alvestad, and Elena Woodacre, 319–340. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pearson, Andrea, ed.

Author: Lisa Hopkins

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

ISBN: 9789048539178

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Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe examines the lives of women whose gender impeded the exercise of their personal, political, and religious agency, with an emphasis on the conflict that occurred when they crossed the edges society placed on their gender. Many of the women featured in this collection have only been afforded cursory scholarly focus, or the focus has been isolated to a specific, (in)famous event. This collection redresses this imbalance by providing comprehensive discussions of the women's lives, placing the matter that makes them known to history within the context of their entire life. Focusing on women from different backgrounds - such as Marie Meurdrac, the French chemist; Anna Trapnel, the Fifth Monarchist and prophetess; and Cecilia of Sweden, princess, margravine, countess, and regent - this collection brings together a wide range of scholars from a variety of disciplines to bring attention to these previously overlooked women.

Later Plantagenet and the Wars of the Roses ConsortsLater Plantagenet and the Wars of the Roses Consorts

2023-03-03 Aidan Norrie

... “Queering Isabella: The 'She Wolf of France' in Film and Television,” in Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture, ed. Janice North, Karl C. Alvestad, and Elena Woodacre (New York: Palgrave ...

Author: Aidan Norrie

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783030948863

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This book examines the lives and tenures of the consorts of the Plantagenet dynasty during the later Middle Ages, encompassing two major conflicts—the Hundred Years’ War and the Wars of the Roses. The figures in this volume include well-known consorts such as the “She Wolves” Isabella of France and Margaret of Anjou, as well as queens who are often overlooked, such as Philippa of Hainault and Joan of Navarre. These innovative and authoritative biographies bring a fresh approach to the consorts of this period—challenging negative perceptions created by complex political circumstances and the narrow expectations of later writers, and demonstrating the breadth of possibilities in later medieval queenship. Their conclusions shed fresh light on both the politics of the day and the wider position of women in this age. This volume and its companions reveal the changing nature of English consortship from the Norman Conquest to today.

PresentismPresentism

2018-12-15 Sabine Cherenfant

Janice North, Karl C. Alvestad, and Elena Woodacre, eds., Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018. Russ Shafer-Landau, The Fundamentals of Ethics.

Author: Sabine Cherenfant

Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC

ISBN: 9781534503816

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The recent wave of statues, building names, and other monuments memorializing figures like Christopher Columbus and Confederate generals being removed from public spaces and college campuses has brought the reassessment of historical figures to the fore. It has raised questions about whom we choose to venerate; how historical narratives form; and whether it is best to erase problematic figures from the historical record, present a new interpretation on them, or attempt to be as unbiased as possible by contemporary attitudes when regarding them. Readers will learn more about this timely and complicated issue through a wide range of perspectives.

From Medievalism to Early ModernismFrom Medievalism to Early Modernism

2018-10-26 Marina Gerzic

... Pascale Aebischer's Screening Early Modern Drama: Beyond Shakespeare; the 2015 volume of the journal Shakespeare on “Adaptation and Early Modern Culture: Shakespeare and Beyond”; and Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, ...

Author: Marina Gerzic

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9780429683008

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From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past is a collection of essays that both analyses the historical and cultural medieval and early modern past, and engages with the medievalism and early-modernism—a new term introduced in this collection—present in contemporary popular culture. By focusing on often overlooked uses of the past in contemporary culture—such as the allusions to John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi (1623) in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books, and the impact of intertextual references and internet fandom on the BBC’s The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses—the contributors illustrate how cinematic, televisual, artistic, and literary depictions of the historical and cultural past not only re-purpose the past in varying ways, but also build on a history of adaptations that audiences have come to know and expect. From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past analyses the way that the medieval and early modern periods are used in modern adaptations, and how these adaptations both reflect contemporary concerns, and engage with a history of intertextuality and intervisuality.

Lope de Vega on Spanish Screens 1935 2020Lope de Vega on Spanish Screens 1935 2020

2022-06-27 Philip Allen

Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture. New York: Springer. Nourry, Philippe. 1986. Juan Carlos: un rey para los republicanos. Barcelona: Planeta. Novísima recopilación de las leyes de España: ...

Author: Philip Allen

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN: 9781666911787

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In this book, Philip Allen examines the presence of Lope de Vega’s adapted work on Spanish screens since the mid-twentieth century. In his analysis, Allen revisits and problematizes stereotypes present in popular and academic culture surrounding the author’s life and works, which have at times been co-opted as propaganda.

Theatres of Human SacrificeTheatres of Human Sacrifice

2004-11-18 Mark Pizzato

... mass audience desires across the indefinite threshold between the appearance and reality of violence onscreen. Brockett's channel-changer analogy thus hinges on the appetite for violence, not just variety, in ancient and postmodern ...

Author: Mark Pizzato

Publisher: State University of New York Press

ISBN: 9780791484234

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Provides insight into the ritual lures and effects of mass media spectatorship, especially regarding the pleasures, risks, and purposes of violent display. Contemporary debates about mass media violence tend to ignore the long history of staged violence in the theatres and rituals of many cultures. In Theatres of Human Sacrifice, Mark Pizzato relates the appeal and possible effects of screen violence todayin sports, movies, and television newsto specific sacrificial rites and performance conventions in ancient Greek, Aztec, and Roman culture. Using the psychoanalytic theories of Lacan, Kristeva, and Zðizûek, as well as the theatrical theories of Artaud and Brecht, the book offers insights into the ritual lures and effects of current mass media spectatorship, especially regarding the pleasures, purposes, and risks of violent display. Updating Aristotle’s notion of catharsis, Pizzato identifies a sacrificial imperative within the human mind, structured by various patriarchal cultures and manifested in distinctive rites and dramas, with both positive and negative potential effects on their audiences. Mark Pizzato is Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the author of Edges of Loss: From Modern Drama to Postmodern Theory.