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This book tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses, beginning with Agnès Sorel, the first officially recognized royal mistress in 1444; including Anne of Brittany, Catherine de Medici, Anne Pisseleu, Diane de Poitiers, and Marguerite de Valois, among others; and concluding with Gabrielle d'Estrées, Henry IV's powerful mistress during the 1590s.Wellman shows that women in both roles-queen and mistress-enjoyed great influence over French politics and culture, not to mention over the powerful men with whom they were involved. The book also addresses the enduring mythology surrounding these women, relating captivating tales that uncover much about Renaissance modes of argument, symbols, and values, as well as our own modern preoccupations.

Queens --- Mistresses --- Renaissance --- France --- Kings and rulers --- History

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This book of essays brings together international scholars working on the literary, visual, musical, and theatrical representations and reception of Hortense Mancini, Duchess Mazarin, an early modern woman whose literal-geographical-"border crossings" serve here as the starting point for an investigation of her and others' elisions and transgressions of borders of all kinds. The authors lay out strategies for exploring the ways in which she crossed geographical, gendered, cultural, and-in sch...

Mistresses --- Women --- Social conditions --- Mazarin, Hortense Mancini, --- Charles --- Relations with women. --- France --- Great Britain --- History

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This volume originates from the International study of principal preparation (ISPP), a collaborative project representing nearly a decade of research on principal preparation in countries throughout the world. Through focused stages of research, the ISPP systematically examined the kinds of preparation available to principals and how this preparation serves principals in their first years in the post. The authors attend to dynamic changes that are affecting the way principals work. Demographic shifts, globalization, and emerging technologies are transforming the world and the role of educational leaders. Economic and political forces are causing waves of migration from one country to another. Even within the same country, changes in labour markets and political turmoil are pushing people into new communities. The authors provide extensive reviews of literature on educational administrator preparation and also offer a perspective on local history and culture. They develop an intercultural approach to understanding the principalship and to highlight marginalized and underrepresented groups.

School principals. --- Head masters --- Head mistresses --- Head teachers --- Headmasters --- Headmistresses --- Headteachers --- Principals, School --- School superintendents and principals --- School administrators

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Aspasia of Miletus, next to Sappho and Cleopatra, is one of the best known women of the classical world. This study traces the construction of Aspasia's biographical tradition and shows how it has prevented her from taking her rightful place as a contributor to the ancient world.

Mistresses --- -Women in politics --- Lovers (Mistresses) --- Concubinage --- Paramours --- Biography --- Aspasia --- Pericles --- Aspazja --- Aspasie --- Aspasia de Mileto --- De Mileto, Aspasia --- Mileto, Aspasia de --- Aspasia, --- Greece --- History --- -Mistresses --- Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Political activity --- Aspasia. --- Pericles, --- Pericle, --- Perikl, --- Perikles, --- Perykles, --- Athens (Greece) --- Women in politics

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Providing a comprehensive support and development package for new and aspiring headteachers, this practical book helps first-time headteachers to deal confidently with the challenges of their post, informs senior teachers about what they can expect in the role, and prepares them for a future in headship.

Educational leadership --- School principals --- Head masters --- Head mistresses --- Head teachers --- Headmasters --- Headmistresses --- Headteachers --- Principals, School --- School superintendents and principals --- School administrators