How do gender and power relationships affect the expression of
family, House and dynastic identities? The present study explores
this question using a case study of the House of Orange-Nassau,
whose extensive visual, material and archival sources from both
male and female members enable the authors to trace their complex
attempts to express, gain and maintain power: in texts, material
culture, and spaces, as well as rituals, acts and practices. The
book adopts several innovative approaches to the history of the
Orange-Nassau family, and to familial and dynastic studies
generally. Firstly, the authors analyse in detail a vast body of
previously unexplored sources, including correspondence, artwork,
architectural, horticultural and textual commissions, ceremonies,
practices and individual actions that have, surprisingly, received
little attention to date individually, and consider these as the
collective practices of a key early modern dynastic family. They
investigate new avenues about the meanings and practices of family
and dynasty in the early modern period, extending current research
that focuses on dominant men to ask how women and subordinate men
understood 'family' and 'dynasty', in what respects such notions
were shared among members, and how it might have been fractured and
fashioned by individual experiences. Adopting a transnational
approach to the Nassau family, the authors explore the family's
self-presentation across a range of languages, cultures and
historiographical traditions, situating their representation of
themselves as an influential House within an international context
and offering a new vision of power as a gendered concept.
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