Still,the idea persisted: In December 2012 , several LAL editors met in Abu Dhabi, along with poet Richard Sieburth, to discuss the writings of
Consorts and to talk about the collaborative and reader-focused nature of what they were attempting.
Kinney offers a full account of the influential imperial
consorts of the Former Han dynasty.
The ultimate impression of this book is that these queen
consorts were the last generation to move in a world in which Europe was held together by the familial ties between royal houses.
The 57-year-old widow reckons she might have a shortlist of up to eight volunteers willing to act as her
consort - including fellow councillors, her daughters - and even two of her grandsons.
The best evidence of powerful women in Assyria, therefore, relates to queen mothers rather than
consorts or wives.
Does the
consort have a parallel set of rooms and public spaces?
Payne also includes an organ part for all of the
consorts that have one in any extant contemporary sources, although he remains equivocal about whether Ward intended organ accompaniment or not.
While there is some lovely music-making on it--for example, the opening section of Fantazia 7, rich in its false relations--the ensemble lacks the sense of common purpose found in the other three
consorts.
One immediately notices that there is something extraordinary about this book, for it begins with a 3 1/2-page 'historical capriccio' describing an imaginary concert at Whitehall on the eve of Strafford's impeachment in 1641, at which
consort music by William Lawes is about to be played.
Unfortunately for the Emperor, the Great Wall has sprung up behind him, separating him from his
consorts.
The
consort of a reigning king is a queen while that of a reigning queen is by custom a prince.
When I sat down to review Devi: Goddesses of India, I assumed that I would simply be reading a new edition of The Divine
Consort (Berkeley, 1982), the well-known collection of essays also edited by Hawley and Wulff.
