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03356aam a2200457Ii 4500 001 95F913606CA011E9A39CB90697128E48 003 SILO 005 20190502010142 008 180328t20192019onc b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781487503666 020 $a 1487503660 035 $a (OCoLC)1029807396 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCQ $d YDXIT $d NOC $d MNU $d SILO 043 $a e-fr--- 050 4 $a DC122.9.M3 $b G68 2019 055 0 $a DC122.9 M3 $b G68 2018 082 04 $a 944/.031092 $2 23 084 $a cci1icc $2 lacc 084 $a coll13 $2 lacc 100 1 $a Gough, Melinda J., $d 1967- $e author. 245 10 $a Dancing queen : $b Marie de MeÌdicis' ballets at the court of Henri IV / $c Melinda J. Gough. 264 1 $a Toronto : $b University of Toronto Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xvi, 378 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Under glittering lights in the Louvre palace, the French court ballets danced by Queen Marie de MeÌdicis prior to Henri IV's assassination in 1610 attracted thousands of spectators ranging from pickpockets to ambassadors from across Europe. Drawing on newly discovered primary sources as well as theories and methodologies derived from literary studies, political history, musicology, dance studies, and women's and gender studies, Dancing Queen traces how Marie's ballets authorized her incipient political authority through innovative verbal and visual imagery, avant-garde musical developments, and ceremonial arrangements of objects and bodies in space. Making use of women's "semi-official" status as political agents, Marie's ballets also manipulated the subtle social and cultural codes of international courtly society in order to more deftly navigate rivalries and alliances both at home and abroad. At times the queen's productions could challenge Henri IV's immediate interests, contesting the influence enjoyed by his mistresses or giving space to implied critiques of official foreign policy, for example. Such defenses of Marie's own position, though, took shape as part of a larger governmental program designed to promote the French consort queen's political authority not in its own right but as a means of maintaining power for the new Bourbon monarchy in the event of Henri IV's untimely death."-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 00 $a Marie de MeÌdicis, $c Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, $d 1573-1642 $x Relations with courts and courtiers. 600 00 $a Marie de MeÌdicis, $c Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, $d 1573-1642 $x Ballet. $x Ballet. 600 07 $a Marie de MeÌdicis, $c Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, $d 1573-1642. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00085623 650 0 $a Ballet $z France $x History $y 17th century. 651 0 $a France $x History $x History $y 17th century. 651 0 $a France $x History $y Henry IV, 1589-1610. 650 7 $a Ballet. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00826017 650 7 $a Courts and courtiers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00881829 650 7 $a Relations with courts and courtiers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01354341 651 7 $a France. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204289 648 7 $a 1589-1699 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190605010746.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=95F913606CA011E9A39CB90697128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search