2. Dressing the Queen at the French Renaissance Court: Sartorial Politics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Acknowledgements 5
3. Table of Contents 7
4. List of Illustrations 9
5. Introduction 15
6. 1. Isabella d’Este’s Sartorial Politics 33
7. 2. Dressing the Queen at the French Renaissance Court: Sartorial Politics 57
8. 3. Dressing the Bride: Weddings and Fashion Practices at German Princely Courts in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries 75
9. 4. Lustrous Virtue: Eleanor of Austria’s Jewels and Gems as Composite Cultural Identity and Affective Maternal Agency 93
10. 5. Queen Elizabeth: Studded with Costly Jewels 115
11. 6. A ‘Cipher of A and C set on the one Syde with diamonds’: Anna of Denmark’s Jewellery and the Politics of Dynastic Display 139
12. 7. ‘She bears a duke’s revenues on her back’: Fashioning Shakespeare’s Women at Court 161
13. 8. How to Dress a Female King: Manifestations of Gender and Power in the Wardrobe of Christina of Sweden 183
14. 9. Clothes Make the Queen: Mariana of Austria’s Style of Dress, from Archduchess to Queen Consort (1634–1665) 207
15. 10. ‘The best of Queens, the most obedient wife’: Fashioning a Place for Catherine of Braganza as Consort to Charles II 227
16. 11. Chintz, China, and Chocolate: The Politics of Fashion at Charles II’s Court 253
17. 12. Henrietta Maria and the Politics of Widows’ Dress at the Stuart Court 277
18. Works Cited 303
19. Index 333