@book{8ff06c4728a64c46a163a35e927a0a41,
title = "Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture",
abstract = "Pop culture portrayals of medieval and early modern monarchs are rife with tension between authenticity and modern mores, producing anachronisms such as a feminist Queen Isabel (in RTVE{\textquoteright}s Isabel) and a lesbian Queen Christina (in The Girl King). This book examines these anachronisms as a dialogue between premodern and postmodern ideas about gender and sexuality, raising questions of intertemporality, the interpretation of history, and the dangers of presentism. Covering a range of famous and lesser-known European monarchs on screen, from Elizabeth I to Muhammad XII of Granada, this book addresses how the lives of powerful women and men have been mythologized in order to appeal to today{\textquoteright}s audiences. The contributors interrogate exactly what is at stake in these portrayals; namely, our understanding of premodern rulers, the gender and sexual ideologies they navigated, and those that we navigate today. ",
editor = "Elena Woodacre and Karl Alvestad and Janice North",
year = "2018",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-319-68770-4",
series = "Queenship and Power",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
}