This study seeks to examine a number of themes relating to the roles of the women's court of the central European Habsburgs. These include its role in helping consolidate their holdings in central ...Europe and the Holy Roman Empire and structure their relations with the rest of Europe.
A concise overview of the role of queens, empresses, and other royal women from the ancient and classical period through to nearly the present day on every continent, engaging with current themes and ...theories of queenship and directions for future research.
In Spain, the share of ladies in deciding the political destinies of the country from the throne has been more conspicuous than in other European monarchies. The oriental traditions dominant in Spain ...for centuries tended to make wives the humble satellites rather than the equal companions of their husbands. But whilst these traditions limited the power of Spanish women generally, they were insufficient to counteract the extraordinary political influence of a series of remarkable feminine personalities who have on occasion during the course of four centuries practically wielded the sceptres of Spain.
This biography presents a remarkable vision of Spanish society at the beginning of the 13th century by exploring the life of Berenguela of Castile (c. 1179-1246), a queen who dominated public life ...for over forty years.
Structuralist narratology, which has played an instrumental part in the historical development of adaptation studies, now faces increasing criticism from culturally oriented scholars for its ...disregard of contextual factors. My essay argues that postclassical developments of narratology, which recognize culture as a powerful shaping force of narrative form, can effectively address the enduring bifurcation between formal and cultural approaches in adaptation studies. It uses the transpacific adaptation of a Chinese TV drama, renamed Empresses in the Palace by its Netflix adapters, as a case study to show how some of the important narrative transmutations are both motivated by and symptomatic of clashes between specific aspects of the Chinese and the American cultures. My discussion demonstrates that transcultural comparisons can not only foster understanding of adaptations as cultural encounters with inevitable narrative consequences, but also open up new space for the appreciation of other cultures, and provide fresh perspectives on one’s own cultural and narrative traditions.
The 'exotic' lands are kept alive in these texts through descriptions of landscapes, food, garments, languages, and people. ...there is a visible change in the selection of words used for narrating ...those fictitious incidents. ...when white writers write about habits like having supper, which are not a part of the daily routine of the people of the Global South, they seldom highlight it, or provide a note with its meaning. ...World Cosmopolitans 'The category of writers called 'Third World Cosmopolitans', who are globally visible, who are taught in postcolonial classrooms the world over, and who are hailed in the review pages of Western journals as interpreters and authentic voices of the non-Western world hardly ever include a writer from India who does not write in English ... the precondition for belonging to this club is that s/he must write originally in English. Coin was struck in her name . (and) on all farmans also receiving the Imperial signature, the name of "Nur Jahan, the Queen Begam," was jointly attached. ...at last her authority reached such a pass that the King was such only in name.' -
Eugénie, Empress 1826-1920 Schwartz, Jessica
Clothing and Fashion : American Fashion from Head to Toe: The Federal Era through the 19th Century,
2016
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