Female Representation and Violence in the Ceremonial Entries of the Italian Wars
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11501006 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Reid (0000-0002-2628-5257, The University of Western Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 750-768 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-1213 • E-ISSN: 1477-4658 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/rest.12801 |
| OpenAlex | W4229029877 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This essay considers the gendered implications of female representation in the ceremonial entries of the Italian Wars (1494–1559) in light of the events' hyper‐masculine martial context. It takes a holistic approach, uncommon in entry scholarship, by considering the thematic intersections between entry decorations, participation, performance, and commemoration. Visually rendered and embodied performances of political allegory, and written accounts of these displays, reveal an underlying threat of gendered violence. Female personifications of cities, like male‐authored accounts of the cities' women, framed the female body in relation to the male gaze, often to reinforce the entrant's masculinity. This study finds that different modalities of female representation across ceremonial entries utilized allegorical and patriarchal dynamics which were underwritten by the threat of gendered violence
Allegory · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Literature · Masculinity · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · History · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |