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Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture (Queenship and Power) - Hardcover

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9783319687704: Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture (Queenship and Power)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3319687700 ISBN 13: 9783319687704
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Synopsis

Pop culture portrayals of medieval and early modern monarchs are rife with tension between authenticity and modern mores, producing anachronisms such as a feminist Queen Isabel (in RTVE’s Isabel) and a lesbian Queen Christina (in The Girl King). This book examines these anachronisms as a dialogue between premodern and postmodern ideas about gender and sexuality, raising questions of intertemporality, the interpretation of history, and the dangers of presentism. Covering a range of famous and lesser-known European monarchs on screen, from Elizabeth I to Muhammad XII of Granada, this book addresses how the lives of powerful women and men have been mythologized in order to appeal to today’s audiences. The contributors interrogate exactly what is at stake in these portrayals; namely, our understanding of premodern rulers, the gender and sexual ideologies they navigated, and those that we navigate today. 

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About the Author

Janice North is an independent scholar and specialist in medieval and Golden Age Iberian literature.

Karl C. Alvestad is Lecturer in History at the University of Winchester, UK. 

Elena Woodacre is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern European History at the University of Winchester, UK. 

From the Back Cover

Pop culture portrayals of medieval and early modern monarchs are rife with tension between authenticity and modern mores, producing anachronisms such as a feminist Queen Isabel (in RTVE’s Isabel) and a lesbian Queen Christina (in The Girl King). This book examines these anachronisms as a dialogue between premodern and postmodern ideas about gender and sexuality, raising questions of intertemporality, the interpretation of history, and the dangers of presentism. Covering a range of famous and lesser-known European monarchs on screen, from Elizabeth I to Muhammad XII of Granada, this book addresses how the lives of powerful women and men have been mythologized in order to appeal to today’s audiences. The contributors interrogate exactly what is at stake in these portrayals; namely, our understanding of premodern rulers, the gender and sexual ideologies they navigated, and those that we navigate today. 

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3319687700
ISBN 13 
9783319687704
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
370
Editor
North Janice, Alvestad Karl C., Woodacre Elena