Queen Marie, A Luminous Object of Virtue: Dancing as Diplomacy

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1 For the careful education princess Maria received in Florence, see the catalogue edited by Caterina Caneva and Francesco Solinas, Maria de' Medici (1573–1642). Una principessa fiorentina sul trono di Francia (Florence, 2005).

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Margaret M. McGowan

Margaret M. McGowan CBE FBA

Margaret M. McGowan is Research Professor in French at the University of Sussex and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her most recent publications include Dance in the Renaissance. European Fashion, French Obsession (London and New York, 2008); Dynastic Marriges 1612/1615. A Celebration of the Habsburg and Bourbon Unions (Farnham, 2013); and Festival and Violence in the Context of War (1450–1635) (Turnhout, 2019).