Susan Broomhall | Jacqueline Van Gent Gender, power and identity in the early modern House of Orange-Nassau
Gedrukt boek
This book analyses how women and men employed objects in particular places across the world during the early modern period in order to achieve the expansion of the House of Orange-Nassau. The authors explore how the House emerged as a leading force during a period in which the Dutch accrued one of the greatest seaborne empires. They explore strategic behaviours undertaken on behalf of the House of Orange-Nassau, through material culture in a variety of sites of interpretation from palaces and gardens to prints and teapots, in Europe and beyond. Using over 140 selected images, the authors consider a wide range of visual, material and textual sources including portraits, glassware, tiles, letters, architecture and global spaces in order to rethink dynastic power and identity in gendered terms. Through the House of Orange-Nassau, they demonstrate how dynasties could assert status and power by enacting a range of colonising strategies.