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Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture (Queenship and Power) by Janice North & Karl C. Alvestad & Elena Woodacre is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture (Queenship and Power) about?
Pop culture portrayals of medieval and early modern monarchs are rife with tension between authenticity and modern mores, producing anachronisms such as a feminist Queen Isabel (in RTVE’s <i>Isabel</i>) and a lesbian Queen Christina (in <i>The Girl King</i>). This book examines these anachronisms as a dialogue between premodern and postmodern ideas about gender and sexuality, raising questions of intertemporality, the interpretation of history, and the dangers of presentism. Covering a range of
Who reads Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture (Queenship and Power)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Janice North & Karl C. Alvestad & Elena Woodacre
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783319687711
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Science, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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