The Material World of a Restoration Queen Consort - The Privy Purse Accounts of Catherine of Braganza

Insights into the Catholicism, pets, pastimes, and itinerary of the wife of Charles II's wife.

List of contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of illustrations, maps, and tables.

Introduction

Working with account books

This edition

Catherine of Braganza: 'a fond and pleasant lady'
a) Becoming a queen
b) Catherine and the key events of Charles II's reign
c) Life as queen consort

Barbara, countess of Suffolk
a)Early life
b)In the queen's service/life at court
c)Married life/husband and children

The privy purse - early modern royal women

Catherine of Braganza's privy purse

Glimpses of Catherine's world
a)The queen's household
b)Clothes and dressing
c)Catherine's health: 'the condition of the queen'
d)Religion
e)Politics
f)Recreation
g)Plants and gardens

The queen and seventeenth century Lincolnshire

Catherine and the Lincolnshire archive

Summary

Insights into the Catholicism, pets, pastimes, and itinerary of the wife of Charles II's wife.

Product details

• Assisted by: Maria Hayward (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2024
• EAN: 9781910653142
• ISBN: 978-1-910653-14-2
• No. of pages: 540
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 2000 g
• Series: Publications of the Lincoln Record Society
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History