Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France

by Katherine Crawford

In a book addressing those interested in the transformation of monarchy into the modern state and in intersections of gender and political power, Katherine Crawford examines the roles of female regents in early modern France.

The reigns of child kings loosened the normative structure in which adult males headed the body politic, setting the stage for innovative claims to authority made on gendered terms. When assuming the regency, Catherine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067401541X
• ISBN13: 9780674015418
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.7"