Gender, Power and Identity in the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau

by Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent

How do gender and power relationships affect the expression of family, House and dynastic identities? The present study explores this question using a case study of the House of Orange-Nassau, whose extensive visual, material and archival sources from both male and female members enable the authors to trace their complex attempts to express, gain and maintain power: in texts, material culture, and spaces, as well as rituals, acts and practices...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032402423
• ISBN13: 9781032402420
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"