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masculinity, legitimacy and the French and Dutch Restoration Monarchies (1813-1815)
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- BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review
- Magazine Year
- 2012
- Magazine Number
- 1
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- Lok, Matthijs
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- Scholz, Natalie
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- mannelijkheid, vorstenhuizen, rolgedrag, historisch, Nederland, Frankrijk, 1810-1819
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- In this article the authors investigate the influence of short-term political events on the shaping of dominant political masculinities by comparing the representations of the early French and Dutch Restoration monarchies. The events of the political transition of 1813-1815 greatly influenced the competition of different models of masculinity existing in the early nineteenth century. In both countries the newly established monarchs aimed to legitimate their insecure rule by presenting themselves as 'loving fathers' returning to their despairing children after the dark years of exile. The Dutch monarchy differed from the French case with regards to the role of women in the monarchical representation and the duality of the representation of William I as father and hero. Unlike Louis XVIII, William could present his fatherly rule as a return to the national tradition of domesticity.
masculinity in the staging of the Dutch Restoration Monarchy, 1813-1819
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- BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review
- Magazine Year
- 2012
- Magazine Number
- 1
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- Dudink, Stefan
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- mannelijkheid, vorstenhuizen, beeldende kunsten, rolgedrag, historisch, Nederland, 1810-1819
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- This article explores visual strategies of legitimisation deployed in the establishment of the Dutch Restoration monarchy. It asks how these visual strategies were shaped by historically specific notions of masculinity and simultaneously helped shape such notions. The representation of the King’s body in the state portrait, drawing strongly on neoclassical and revolutionary conventions, invoked notions of masculinity centring around political virtue and naturalness. As such, the King’s body, and the masculinity it represented, helped undo the artificiality associated with monarchy and lent a sense of reality to the staging of the Dutch Restoration monarchy.
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review
- Magazine Year
- 2012
- Magazine Number
- 1
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- mannelijkheid, historisch, vorstenhuizen, krijgsmacht, emoties, religie, Nederland, België, Frankrijk
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- Dudink and his fellow authors show in this special how the concept of masculinity manifested itself in great number of areas. Like the images of the monarchs in the Low Countries in early 19th century, the power relations in the Belgian Army. Amd masculinity not only associated with the desire for power but also with virtue and emotions and new forms of masculinity in the Catholic Church.
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