Women’s Matters

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dc.identifier	ECF_book_570
dc.creator	Lurgo Elisabetta
dc.title	Women’s Matters. Informal Diplomacy and Women’s Networks at the Savoy-Carignano Court (Seventeenth Century)
dc.type	Monograph
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	This volume investigates the family affairs of the Savoy-Carignano dynasty, with a special focus on women: they are, in fact, prominent between the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries, a crucial phase for the family and its territorial governance. The position of the Savoy-Carignano family was extremely delicate and forced them to deal both with Turin and Paris-Versailles, keeping a constant eye on the opportunities offered by the court of Vienna. The strategic balance between different courts, skilfully guided by Marie de Bourbon, Princess of Carignano, is at the heart of this book. Two case studies will be taken into account, in which female figures played a decisive role, mobilising networks of relations and refining negotiation strategies. On the one hand, the controversial wedding of Prince Louis-Thomas, count of Soissons; on the other, the marriage of Prince Emanuel Philibert. The diplomatic incidents triggered by these family affairs forced Mary of Bourbon, the true matriarch of the family, to counterbalance the effects, for the survival of the entire dynastic clan. The letters by the Savoy-Carignano princesses, in the most acute phases of the conflict, outline a sort of resilient epistolary, encouraging us to reflect on the weight of female figures for the consolidation of a patrimony of symbols and privileges, which represented an essential step for a dynasty claiming full territorial sovereignty.
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi di storia
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-697-8
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-04-13
dc.dateAccepted	2023-01-11
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-06-27
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-698-5/
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9883
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9107
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-698-5
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-697-8
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Court studies
dc.subject	Early modern France
dc.subject	Early modern history
dc.subject	House of Savoy
dc.subject	Womens’ history

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Women’s Matters

Informal Diplomacy and Women’s Networks at the Savoy-Carignano Court (Seventeenth Century)

Elisabetta Lurgo Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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abstract

This volume investigates the family affairs of the Savoy-Carignano dynasty, with a special focus on women: they are, in fact, prominent between the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries, a crucial phase for the family and its territorial governance. The position of the Savoy-Carignano family was extremely delicate and forced them to deal both with Turin and Paris-Versailles, keeping a constant eye on the opportunities offered by the court of Vienna. The strategic balance between different courts, skilfully guided by Marie de Bourbon, Princess of Carignano, is at the heart of this book. Two case studies will be taken into account, in which female figures played a decisive role, mobilising networks of relations and refining negotiation strategies. On the one hand, the controversial wedding of Prince Louis-Thomas, count of Soissons; on the other, the marriage of Prince Emanuel Philibert. The diplomatic incidents triggered by these family affairs forced Mary of Bourbon, the true matriarch of the family, to counterbalance the effects, for the survival of the entire dynastic clan. The letters by the Savoy-Carignano princesses, in the most acute phases of the conflict, outline a sort of resilient epistolary, encouraging us to reflect on the weight of female figures for the consolidation of a patrimony of symbols and privileges, which represented an essential step for a dynasty claiming full territorial sovereignty.

Published

April 13, 2023

Accepted

Jan. 11, 2023

Submitted

June 27, 2022

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ISBN (PRINT)

978-88-6969-698-5

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-697-8

Number of pages

142

Dimensions

16x23 cm

Keywords

Womens’ history • House of Savoy • Court studies • Early modern history • Early modern France

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