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Aspiration, Representation and Memory - The Guise in Europe, 1506-1688 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Aspiration, Representation and Memory - The Guise in Europe, 1506-1688 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Exploiting the turbulence and strife of sixteenth-century France,
the House of Guise arose from a provincial power base to establish
themselves as dominant political players in France and indeed
Europe, marrying within royal and princely circles and occupying
the most important ecclesiastical and military positions. Propelled
by ambitions derived from their position as cadets of a minor
sovereign house, they represent a cadre of early modern elites who
are difficult to categorise neatly: neither fully sovereign princes
nor fully subject nobility. They might have spent most of their
time in one state, France, but their interests were always
'trans-national'; contested spaces far from the major centres of
monarchical power - from the Ardennes to the Italian peninsula -
were frequent theatres of activity for semi-sovereign border
families such as the Lorraine-Guise. This nexus of activity, and
the interplay between princely status and representation, is the
subject of this book. The essays in this collection approach Guise
aims, ambitions and self-fashioning using this 'trans-national'
dimension as context: their desire for increased royal (rather than
merely princely) power and prestige, and the use of representation
(visual and literary) in order to achieve it. Guise claims to
thrones and territories from Jerusalem to Naples are explored,
alongside the Guise 'dream of Italy', with in-depth studies of
Henry of Lorraine, fifth Duke of Guise, and his attempts in the
mid-seventeenth century to gain a throne in Naples. The combination
of the violence and drama of their lives at the centres of European
power and their adroit use of publicity ensured that versions of
their strongly delineated images were appropriated by chroniclers,
playwrights and artists, in which they sometimes featured as they
would have wished, as heroes and heroines, frequently as villains,
and ultimately as characters in the narratives of national
heritage.
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