Embroidering her truth : Mary, Queen of Scots and the language of power / Clare Hunter.

• "At her execution Mary, Queen of Scots wore scarlet. Perennially misunderstood as an act of defiance or a colour associated with lust and passion; Mary in fact wore red as the Catholic colour of martyrs. In sixteenth-century Europe, women voices were suppressed and silenced. Even as a queen, Mary's only value was in her ability to bear sons, so she used the sophisticated language of textiles, embroidery and colour to advance her political agenda, affirm her royal lineage and tell her own story. From the lavishly embroidered gowns made for her as the prospective wife to the Dauphin of France, to the church furnishings she imported from Catholic France to Protestant Scotland, from the fashion dolls she used to encourage a Marian style at the Scottish court, to the subversive messages she embroidered from captivity for her supporters, the textiles Mary wore, displayed, gifted and created were redolent with political intent. In this eloquent alternative biography of Mary, Queen of Scots, Clare Hunter exquisitely blends history, politics and memoir to tell the story of a queen in her own voice."--Publisher. 

Ämnesord

Drottningar  (sao)

Renässansen  (sao)

Katolicism  (sao)

Konstsömnad  (sao)

Mode  -- historia (sao)

Queens  -- Scotland -- Biography. (LCSH)

Clothing and dress  -- Symbolic aspects -- Scotland. (LCSH)

Clothing and dress  -- Scotland -- History -- 16th century. (LCSH)

Embroidery  (LCSH)

Clothing and dress.  (fast)

Kings and rulers.  (fast)

Manners and customs.  (fast)

Queens.  (fast)

Clothing and dress  -- Symbolic aspects. (fast)

Queens  (LCSH)

Renaissance  (LCSH)

Embroidery  (LCSH)

Storbritannien  -- Skottland (sao)

Scotland  -- Kings and rulers -- History -- 16th century. (LCSH)

Scotland  -- Social life and customs -- 16th century. (LCSH)

Scotland.  (fast)

1500-talet  (sao)

1500-1599  (fast)

Genre

Biografier  (saogf)

Biographies.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Biographies.  (lcgft)

Personnamn

Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587.

Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 -- Clothing.

Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587.

Maria Stuart, drottning av Skottland, 1542-1587

Elisabet I, drottning av England, 1533-1603

Jakob V, kung av Skottland, 1512-1542

Klassifikation

941.105092 (DDC)

Kes (kssb/8 (machine generated))