The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-waiting across Early Modern Europe
- ISBN-10
- 9004258396
- ISBN-13
- 9789004258396
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 442
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-10-24
- Publisher
- BRILL
Description
This multi-disciplinary collection of essays is the first cohesive attempt to integrate ladies-in-waiting into the master narrative of court studies. It provides evidence for the multitudinous ways in which ‘women above stairs’ influenced the politics and culture of their times.
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