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Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture
Author: Janice North
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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 RTVEs Isabel) and a lesbian Queen Christina (in The Girl King). 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 famous and lesser-known European monarchs on screen, from Elizabeth I to Muhammad XII of Granada, this book addresses how the lives of powerful women and men have been mythologized in order to appeal to todays audiences. The contributors interrogate exactly what is at stake in these portrayals namely, our understanding of premodern rulers, the gender and sexual ideologies they navigated, and those that we navigate today. **From the Back Cover 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 RTVEsIsabel) and a lesbian Queen Christina (inThe Girl King). 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 famous and lesser-known European monarchs on screen, from Elizabeth I to Muhammad XII of Granada, this book addresses how the lives of powerful women and men have been mythologized in order to appeal to todays audiences. The contributors interrogate exactly what is at stake in these portrayals namely, our understanding of premodern rulers, the gender and sexual ideologies they navigated, and those that we navigate today. About the Author Janice North is an independent scholar and specialist in medieval and Golden Age Iberian literature. Karl C. Alvestad is Lecturer in History at the University of Winchester, UK. Elena Woodacre is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern European History at the University of Winchester, UK.
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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 RTVEs Isabel) and a lesbian Queen Christina (in The Girl King). 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 famous and lesser-known European monarchs on screen, from Elizabeth I to Muhammad XII of Granada, this book addresses how the lives of powerful women and men have been mythologized in order to appeal to todays audiences. The contributors interrogate exactly what is at stake in these portrayals namely, our understanding of premodern rulers, the gender and sexual ideologies they navigated, and those that we navigate today. **From the Back Cover 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 RTVEsIsabel) and a lesbian Queen Christina (inThe Girl King). 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 famous and lesser-known European monarchs on screen, from Elizabeth I to Muhammad XII of Granada, this book addresses how the lives of powerful women and men have been mythologized in order to appeal to todays audiences. The contributors interrogate exactly what is at stake in these portrayals namely, our understanding of premodern rulers, the gender and sexual ideologies they navigated, and those that we navigate today. About the Author Janice North is an independent scholar and specialist in medieval and Golden Age Iberian literature. Karl C. Alvestad is Lecturer in History at the University of Winchester, UK. Elena Woodacre is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern European History at the University of Winchester, UK.
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