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Women and Power at the French Court, 1483–1563. Susan Broomhall, ed. Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World 4. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. 384 pp. €129
2020
Renaissance Quarterly
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This collection of thirteen essays, edited by Susan Broomhall, is a noteworthy contribution to new work on monarchy that looks beyond the king and his coterie of male advisers. The essays study multiple sites and forms of power to better understand how gender affected the deployment of power, authority, agency, and influence. Broomhall organizes the essays into four sections: concepts and practices of political power, women at centers and peripheries at court, creativity, and emotions. The
doi:10.1017/rqx.2020.159
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