- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Power and Authority: Lineages of Regency and the Gendering of Political Entitlement
- 2. Catherine de Médicis: Staging the Political Woman
- 3. Contesting the Politics of the State: Marie de Médicis, Royal Familiality, and Gender Performance, 1610–1643
- 4. Evacuating the Center: Anne d’Autriche and the Minority of Louis XIV
- 5. The Male Regent: Philippe d’Orléans and the Traditions of Regency Government
- 6. Revolution and Regency: Killing the Past
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
HARVARD HISTORICAL STUDIES


Harvard Historical Studies 145
Perilous Performances
Gender and Regency in Early Modern France
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Publication Date: 11/30/2004