The body of the queen : gender and rule in the courtly world, 1500-2000

List of Illustrations Foreword List of Contributors Chapter 1. Introduction: Conceptual Approaches to the Queen’s Body Regina Schulte PART I: CONSTRUCTING THE BODY POLITIC Chapter 2. How Two Ladies Steal a Crown: The Memoirs of Helene Kottannerin (1439–40) at the Court of Queen Elisabeth of Hungary (1409–42) Horst Wenzel Chapter 3. Elizabeth When a Princess: Early Self-representations in a Portrait and a Letter Susan Frye Chapter 4. Elizabeth through the Looking Glass: Picturing the Queen’s Two Bodies Louis Montrose Chapter 5. Royal Flesh, Gender and the Construction of Monarchy Rachel Weil PART II: TRANSGRESSING THE BODY NATURAL Chapter 6. What the King Saw in the Belly of the Beast or How the Lion Got in the Queen: Allegories of Royal Procreation in the 1622 Royal Entry into Lyon Abby E. Zanger Chapter 7. Posterity and the Body of the Princess in German Court Funeral Books Jill Bepler Chapter 8. ‘Madame, Ma Chère Fille’ – ‘Dearest Child’: Letters from Imperial Mothers to Royal Daughters Regina Schulte PART III: QUEENS OF MODERNITY Chapter 9. Queen Margherita (1851–1926): 'The Only Man in the House of Savoy' Catherine Brice Chapter 10. The Double Skin: Imperial Fashion in the Nineteenth Century Juliane Vogel Chapter 11. Theatrical Monarchy: The Making of Victoria, the Modern Family Queen Bernd Weisbrod Chapter 12. The Unmanly Emperor: Wilhelm II and the Fragility of the Royal Individual Martin Kohlrausch PART IV: VISUAL METAMORPHOSES Chapter 13. The ‘Berlin’ Nefertiti Bust: Imperial Fantasies in Twentieth-Century German Archaeological Discourse Claudia Breger Chapter 14. Imagined Queens between Heaven and Hell: Representations of Grace Kelly and Romy Schneider Alexis Schwarzenbach Chapter 15. Queer Queen: Elizabeth I in Sally Potter’s Film Orlando Katharina Sykora Bibliography Index