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"The visual images of Queen Elizabeth I displayed in contemporary portraits and perpetuated and developed in more recent media, such as film and television, make her one of the most familiar and popular of all British monarchs.This collection of essays examines the diversity of the queen's extensive iconographical repertoire, focusing on both visual and textual representations of Elizabeth, not only in portraiture and literature, but also in contemporary sermons, speeches and alchemical treatises. The collection broadens current critical thinking about Elizabeth, as each of the essays contributes to the debate about the ways in which the queen's developing iconicity was not simply a celebratory mode, but also encoded criticism of her. Each of these essays explains the ways in which the varied representations of Elizabeth reflect the political and cultural anxieties of her subjects" --Back cover.
Elizabeth --- Public opinion --- History --- In literature --- Portraits. --- Literature --- History Of Art & Design Styles: C 1400 To C 1600 --- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh --- Anthologies: general --- British monarchs. --- Elizabethan era. --- Joan of Arc. --- Lady Alchymia. --- New World. --- Prophetesse Deborah. --- Queen Elizabeth I. --- Virgin Queen. --- alchemical treatises. --- allegorical personae. --- female Protestant monarch. --- iconographical repertoire. --- quasi-religious images. --- religious images.
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It is often said that the past is a foreign country where they do things differently, and perhaps no type of "doing" is more fascinating than sexual desires and behaviours. Our modern view of medieval sexuality is characterised bya polarising dichotomy between the swooning love-struck knights and ladies of romance on one hand, and the darkly imagined and misogyny of an unenlightened "medieval" sexuality on the other. British medieval sexual culture also exhibits such dualities through the influential paradigms of sinner or saint, virgin or whore, and protector or defiler of women. However, such sexual identities are rarely coherent or stable, and it is in the grey areas, the interstices between normative modes of sexuality, that we find the most compelling instances of erotic frisson and sexual expression. This collection of essays brings together a wide-ranging discussion of the sexual possibilitiesand fantasies of medieval Britain as they manifest themselves in the literature of the period. Taking as their matter texts and authors as diverse as Chaucer, Gower, Dunbar, Malory, alchemical treatises, and romances, the contributions reveal a surprising variety of attitudes, strategies and sexual subject positions. Contributors: Aisling Byrne, Anna Caughey, Kristina Hildebrand, Amy S. Kaufman, Yvette Kisor, Megan G. Leitch, Cynthea Masson, Hannah Priest, Samantha J. Rayner, Robert Allen Rouse, Cory James Rushton, Amy N. Vines.
Literature --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- History and criticism. --- Literature, Medieval --- English literature --- Sex in literature. --- Alchemical treatises. --- Britain. --- British history. --- Chaucer. --- Eroticism. --- Gender roles. --- Literature. --- Malory. --- Medieval sexuality. --- Medieval. --- Romance. --- Sexual culture. --- anthropology. --- medeival romance. --- medieval English culture. --- medieval English society. --- medieval history. --- sociology. --- women and gender studies. --- women's studies'.
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