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ISBN: 9780521814225 0521814227 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press
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This pioneering survey of court cultures in the age of the High Baroque through to the age of Enlightenment uses the role of the queen consort as the principal means of inquiry. The principal themes explored are the consort's formal and informal power, her religious role, and her cultural patronage. The book reveals the dynamics of dynastic politics as courts used their family linkages to advance themselves in the hierarchy of European powers, and suggests how women sometimes formed their own networks. The courts surveyed include those of France, Spain, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, the Imperial court at Vienna, and the three German electorateS linked to monarchies: Brandenburg-Prussia, Saxony-Poland and Hanover-Great Britain. Also included is the duchy of Wrttemburg, which achieved royal status by the end of the period, and Savoy, which attained it through acquiring Piedmont at the beginning.
Queens --- Women --- Reines --- Femmes --- History. --- Histoire --- Europe --- Court and courtiers. --- Cour et courtisans --- History --- Politics --- Power --- Monarchies --- Book
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ISBN: 9780300217100 Year: 2017 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press
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Caroline of Ansbach (1683?1737), Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719?1772), and Charlotte of Mecklenberg-Strelitz (1744?1818) were three German princesses who became Queens Consort?or, in the case of Augusta, Queen in Waiting, Regent, and Princess Dowager?of Great Britain, and were linked by their early years at European princely courts, their curiosity, aspirations, and an investment in Enlightenment thought. This sumptuously illustrated book considers the ways these powerful, intelligent women left enduring marks on British culture through a wide range of activities: the promotion of the court as a dynamic forum of the Hanoverian regime; the enrichment of the royal collection of art; the advancement of science and industry; and the creation of gardens and menageries. Objects included range from spectacular state portraits to pedagogical toys to plant and animal specimens, and reveal how the new and novel intermingled with the traditional.
Arts, British --- Science --- Arts britanniques --- Sciences --- History --- Histoire --- Caroline, --- Augusta, --- Charlotte, --- Art patronage. --- Art patronage --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- princesses --- Art --- patronage --- British [modern] --- Caroline [Queen] --- Augusta [Princess of Wales] --- Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz [Queen of Great-Britain and Ireland] --- anno 1700-1799 --- Caroline [Queen of Great Britain] --- Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz [Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]
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