Queenship in the Mediterranean [electronic resource] : Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras /
Woodacre, E.editor.
Bath Spa University.
This groundbreaking collection explores the key roles that Mediterranean queens played as wives, as mothers, and above all as political actors. Ranging from Byzantine empresses to regnants and consorts in the Italian peninsula, they offer a bracing new perspective on queenship in the medieval and Early Modern eras.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Queenship in the Mediterranean; 2 Female Monarchs in the Medieval Byzantine Court: Prejudice, Disbelief, and Calumnies; 3 To Have and Have Not: The Dower of Joanna Plantagenet, Queen of Sicily (1177-1189); 4 The Final Testament of Violante de Aragón (c. 1236-1300/01): Agency and (dis)Empowerment of a Dowager Queen; 5 Lost and Found: Visualizing a Medieval Queen's Destroyed Objects; 6 The Political Role of a Portuguese Queen in the Late Fourteenth Century
7 Philippa of Lancaster: The Memory of a Model Queen8 Not Lost in Translation: Aragonese Court Culture on Tour (1400-1480); 9 Queenly Time in the Reign of Juan II of Castile (1406-1454); 10 Princess Isabel of Portugal: First Lady in a Kingdom without a Queen (1415-1428); 11 Blanca, Queen of Sicily and Queen of Navarre: Connecting the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean via an Aragonese Alliance; 12 Consorts of Moroccan Sultans: Lalla Khnata Bint Bakkar "A Woman with Three Kings"
13 The Sovereign and His Wife "Minister": Charles Emmanuel IV and Marie Clotilde AdélaïdeXavière of France. Interpersonal and Political Relations between the Sovereigns of Sardinia14 Queenship and Family Dynamics through the Correspondence of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples; Contribitors; Index
Includes index.
This groundbreaking collection explores the key roles that Mediterranean queens played as wives, as mothers, and above all as political actors. Ranging from Byzantine empresses to regnants and consorts in the Italian peninsula, they offer a bracing new perspective on queenship in the medieval and Early Modern eras.
Europe—History.
History, Modern.
Europe—History—476-1492.
Civilization—History.
Social history.
Italy—History.
European History.
Modern History.
History of Medieval Europe.
Cultural History.
Social History.
History of Italy.