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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"courtesans"”.
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Kings and Courtesans: A Study of the Pictorial Representation of French Royal Mistresses
This thesis explores the development in the pictorial representation of four important French royal mistresses. It looks at works depicting Agnès Sorel, mistress to Charles VII; Diane de Poitiers, mistress to Henri II; Gabrielle d’Estrées, mistress to Henri IV; and Madame de Pompadour, mistress to …
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Kings and Courtesans: A Study of the Pictorial Representation of French Royal Mistresses
This thesis explores the development in the pictorial representation of four important French royal mistresses. It looks at works depicting Agnès Sorel, mistress to Charles VII; Diane de Poitiers, mistress to Henri II; Gabrielle d’Estrées, mistress to Henri IV; and Madame de Pompadour, mistress to …
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Her Playing Eye: Courtesans at Chess in the Book of Games (c. 1283/84)
… women, kings and queens, women and women, courtesans and knights, monks and men, nuns and children, young and old—a range of players of different faiths and backgrounds. This thesis examines the covert complexity of women’s relationships in the thirteenth-century Castilian court of Alfonso …
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Music Making in Iran: Developments Between the Sixteenth and Late Nineteenth Centuries
… chapter provides a background on the role of courtesans and their accompanying instrumentalists in Iran between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. The influence of upper-class courtesans on the urban musical milieu was particularly strong throughout the seventeenth century. While they …
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Painted Faces & Printed Music: Women and Music in the Paintings of Bartolomeo Veneto and Sebastiano Florigerio
… and artwork of this era. Artists’ depictions of courtesans included music to convey what was considered sensual and immoral; yet other works displayed music instruments as representations of women’s nobility and grace. Through an analysis of iconography within Bartolomeo Veneto’s <em>Lady Playing …
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Piety and Puritanism in the Plays of the Poetess-Punk Aphra Behn
… Behn's plays: The Lucky Chance, The Feigned Courtesans, The Rover, The Emperor of the Moon, and The Widdow Ranter; Or The History of Bacon in Virginia. Since the feminist recovery of her works in the late twentieth century, Behn has become a popular subject of inquiry among gender critics who …
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Trans history from antiquity for today: reading gender in Imperial Roman literature
… in Lucian’s fifth Dialogue of the Courtesans, Hercules swapping clothes with Omphale, and Statius’ account of Achilles living as a maiden on the isle of Scyros—in order to draw several principles about how gender is functioning within these texts. First, clothing, body language, and …
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Gender, Power, and Persona in the Poetry of Baudri of Bourgueil
… draws attention to the dangerous lives of the courtesans in his elegy. Furthermore, his Ovidianism can be situated within the context of the contemporary Gregorian Reforms. In the same way that the puella can be seen as a projection of elite Roman males’ experience of disenfranchisement amidst …
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Eros en Carnaval: literatura de burdel en España e Italia en la Modernidad temprana
The literary depiction of prostitutes and courtesans in early modern Spanish and Italian literature (15th-17th centuries) generally follows the misogynistic and patriarchal norms characteristic of the period. Female characters associated with sexual commerce (including go-betweens and procuresses) …
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Maids, Wives and Widows: Female Architectural Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Britain
This thesis explores the extent to which elite women of the eighteenth century commissioned architectural works and the extent to which the type and scale of their projects was dictated by their marital status. Traditionally, architectural historians have advocated that eighteenth-century …