[PDF] The Duchess Of Mazarin A Tale eBook

Author : Elizabeth Goldsmith
Publisher : Public Affairs
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1586488899

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The little-known story of two spirited sisters who flaunted every social convention of 17th century Europe in their determination to live independently.

Author : Marie Mancini
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,70 MB
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226502805

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The memoirs of Hortense (1646–1699) and of Marie (1639–1715) Mancini, nieces of the powerful Cardinal Mazarin and members of the court of Louis XIV, represent the earliest examples in France of memoirs published by women under their own names during their lifetimes. Both unhappily married—Marie had also fled the aftermath of her failed affair with the king—the sisters chose to leave their husbands for life on the road, a life quite rare for women of their day. Through their writings, the Mancinis sought to rehabilitate their reputations and reclaim the right to define their public images themselves, rather than leave the stories of their lives to the intrigues of the court—and to their disgruntled ex-husbands. First translated in 1676 and 1678 and credited largely to male redactors, the two memoirs reemerge here in an accessible English translation that chronicles the beginnings of women’s rights to personal independence within the confines of an otherwise circumscribed early modern aristocratic society.

Author : Susan Shifrin
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 22,84 MB
Release : 2009-05-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 144381184X

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This book of essays brings together international scholars working on the literary, visual, musical, and theatrical representations and reception of Hortense Mancini, Duchess Mazarin, an early modern woman whose literal—geographical—“border crossings” serve here as the starting point for an investigation of her and others’ elisions and transgressions of borders of all kinds. The authors lay out strategies for exploring the ways in which she crossed geographical, gendered, cultural, and—in scholarly terms—disciplinary boundaries, and in so doing, consider how an investigation of those border crossings can enhance our understanding of early modern cultural formation. The new work presented here by some of the most distinguished junior and senior scholars working today in the fields of history, art history, literary history, the history of theater, and the history of music promises to stimulate a broader scholarly discussion about early modern border-crossing and women’s places in the early modern period in general.