Mother Queens and Princely Sons : Rogue Madonnas in the Age of Shakespeare
by
S. Ray
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Queenship and Power
ISBN-10
1137003790
ISBN-13
9781137003799
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 15th, 2012
Print length
195 Pages
Weight
376 grams
Dimensions
21.70 x 14.90 x 1.80 cms
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This study explores representations of the Madonna and Child in early modern culture. It considers the mother and son as a conceptual, religio-political unit and examines the ways in which that unit was embodied and performed. Of primary interest is the way mothers derived agency from bearing incipient rulers.
Changing beliefs about the Virgin and her relationship with Christ had a tremendous impact on early modern culture, religious thought, and daily life. The development of Marian authority, with its latent potential to upset gender and power hierarchies, gradually worked to undermine medieval legal traditions such as marital coverture and the king''s two bodies. In this exploration of the Madonna and Child''s historical and cultural reverberations, Sid Ray examines historical queens who appropriated Marianisms to establish authority as well as representations of mothers and sons in early modern drama, arguing that they contested Protestant patriarchal authority and helped to reframe the operation of political power.
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