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Perilous Performances

Gender and Regency in Early Modern France

Katherine Crawford

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Publication Date: 11/30/2004

310 pages

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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

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