Output details
30 - History
University of Kent
Chapter title
Anne de Pisseleu (1508-1580), Duchesse d’Étampes, Maîtresse et Conseillère de François Ier
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Presses Universitaires de Rennes
Book title
Les Conseillers de François Ier
ISBN of book
9782753513136
Year of publication
2011
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
This study of Anne de Pisseleu, the maîtresse en titre of Francis I during the 1530s and 1540s, examines the full range of her political influence. Written in the framework of recent studies (Wanegffelen; Wilson-Chevalier) that have sought to delineate the nature and range of female power in the Renaissance period, the study is the most detailed examination of de Pisseleu’s political influence to date. It seeks to establish the range of her familial and clientage networks and examines her attempts to exercise the power of a councillor in fact, though not in name, during the King’s later years.
