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Queen Hedwig Eleonora and the Arts - Court Culture in Seventeenth-Century Northern Europe (Hardcover)
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Queen Hedwig Eleonora and the Arts - Court Culture in Seventeenth-Century Northern Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
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As queen consort and dowager, Hedwig Eleonora (1636-1715) held a
unique position in Sweden for more than half a century. As the
dominant collector and patron of art and architecture in the realm,
she left a strong mark on Swedish court culture. Her dynastic
network among the Northern European courts was extensive, and this
helped to make Sweden a major cultural center in Northern Europe in
the later seventeenth century. This book represents the first major
scholarly publication on the full range of Hedwig Eleonora's
endeavours, from the financing of her court to her place within a
larger princely network, to her engagements with various cultural
pursuits, to her public image. As the contributors show, despite
her high profile, political position, and conspicuous patronage,
Hedwig Eleonora experienced little of the animosity directed at
many other foreign queens and regents, such as the Medici in France
and Henrietta Maria in England. In this way, she provides a model
for a different and more successful way of negotiating the
difficulties of joining a foreign court; the analysis of her
circumstances thus adds a substantial dimension to the study of
early modern queenship. Presenting much new scholarship, this
volume highlights one extremely significant early modern woman and
her imprint on Northern European history, and fosters international
awareness of the importance of early modern Scandinavia for
European cultural history.
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