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For her commissioning and performance of a French vernacular
version of the Arabic Tale of the Thousand and One Nights -
recorded in one of the most vivid and sumptuous late
thirteenth-century manuscripts extant - as well as for her numerous
other commissions, Queen Marie de Brabant (1260-1321) was heralded
as a literary and intellectual patron comparable to Alexander the
Great and Charlemagne. Nevertheless, classic studies of the late
medieval period understate Marie's connection to the contemporary
rise of secular interests at the French court. My book, Pleasure
and Politics at the Court of France: the Artistic Patronage of
Marie de Brabant (1260-1321), by reshaping the inquiry into court
patronage, posits that the historical record reveals exciting and
important contributions Marie de Brabant made to this burgeoning
secular court. This emerging importance of the secular and
redefinition of the sacred during these last decades of Capetian
rule becomes all the more striking when juxtaposed to the pious
tone of the lengthy reign of Louis IX (1214-1270), which had ended
just four years before Marie's marriage to his son. That Marie
often chose innovative materials and iconographies - that would
later in the fourteenth century become the norm - to create these
images signals her importance in late medieval patronage. These
themes of court, culture, politics, and gender reflect and connect
the chronological and methodological organization of my fully
drafted manuscript. A substantial revision and expansion of my
dissertation, the book examines Marie's commissions from her
arrival in Paris in 1274 until her death in 1321 and analyzes the
dynamics of her patronage and its impact on other women and men of
the royal house.
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