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Item Number: 122017
Title: Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France
Author: Wellman, Kathleen
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780300178852
Description: New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. 24cm., hardcover, 416pp., 59 illus. Summary: This book tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses, beginning with Agnès Sorel, the first officially recognised royal mistress in 1444, including Anne of Brittany, Catherine de Medici, Anne Pisseleu, Diane de Poitiers, Marguerite de Valois among others, and concluding with Gabrielle d’Estrées, Henry IV’s powerful mistress during the 1590s. Wellman includes both queens and mistresses, showing that women in both roles enjoyed great influences over both French politics and culture, not to mention the powerful men with whom they were involved. The book also addresses the enduring mythology surrounding these women, relaying captivating tales that uncover much about Renaissance modes of argument, symbols and values, as well as our own modern preoccupations. (^Available Autumn 2013^)
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