Doña Blanca of Navarre
Author: Francisco Navarro Villoslada
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Published: 1854
Total Pages: 344
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Author: Francisco Navarro Villoslada
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Published: 1854
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elena Woodacre
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-09-04
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 1137339152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe five queens of Navarre were the largest group of female sovereigns in one European realm during the Middle Ages, but they are largely unknown beyond a regional audience. This survey fills this scholarly lacuna, focusing particularly on issues of female succession, agency, and power-sharing dynamic between the queens and their male consorts.
Author: Guida M. Jackson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2009-08-11
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1469113546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen Leaders of Europe and the Western Hemisphere offers short biographical entries on women, both famous and obscure, holding the reins of power from ancient times up to the present day on three continents. In addition to these alphabetically and regionally arranged entries, two essays present often astonishing anecdotes concerning many of these forgotten women, bringing them to life and imbuing their stories with all the flamboyance and drama of an epic movie. Its companion book covers women leaders from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific.
Author: Zita Eva Rohr
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-10-08
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 3319312839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection opens new ways to look at queenship in areas and countries not usually studied and reflects the increasingly interdisciplinary work and geographic range of the field. This book is a forerunner in queenship and re-invents the reputations of the women and some of the men. The contributors answers questions about the nature of queenship, reputation of queens, and gender roles in the medieval and early modern west. The essays question the viability of propaganda, gossip, and rumor that still characterizes some queens in modern histories. The wide geographic range covered by the contributors moves queenship studies beyond France and England to understudied places such as Sweden and Hungary. Even the essays on more familiar countries explores areas not usually studied, such as the role of Edward II’s stepmother, Margaret of France in Gaveston’s downfall. The chapters clearly have a common thread and the editors’ summary and description of the collection is valuable in assisting the reader. The collection is divided into two sections “Biography, Gossip, and History” and “Politics, Ambition, and Scandal.” The editors and contributors, including Zita Eva Rohr and Elena Woodacre, are scholars at the top of their field and several and engage and debate with recent scholarship. This collection will appeal internationally to literary scholars and gender studies scholars as well historians interested in the countries included in the collection.
Author: E. L. Miron
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 422
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Royall Tyler
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 762
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Louis Ellies Du Pin
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Published: 1724
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Free Public Library (Worcester, Mass.)
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 1416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elizabeth Valdez Del Alamo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-01-15
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 1351758039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title was first published in 2000: Reverent memorial for the dead was the inspiration for the production of a significant category of artworks during the Middle Ages - artworks aimed as much at the laity as at the clergy, and intended to maintain, symbolically, the presence of the dead. Memoria, the term that describes the formal, liturgical memory of the dead, also includes artworks intended to house and honour the deceased. This book explores the ways in which medieval Christians sought to memorialize the deceased: with tombs, cenotaphs, altars and other furnishings connected to a real or symbolic burial site. A dozen essays analyze strategies for commemoration from the 4th to the 15th century: the means by which human memory could be activated or manipulated through the interaction between monuments, their setting, and the visitor. Building upon from the growing body of literature on memory in the Middle Ages, the collection focuses on the tomb monument and its context as a complex to define what is to be remembered, to fix memory, and to facilitate recollection. Remembering depended upon the emotionally charged interaction between the visitor, the funerary monument, strategically placed images or inscriptions, the liturgy and its participants. Commemorative artworks may consolidate social bonds as well as individual memory, as put forth in this volume. Parallels are drawn between mnemonic devices utilized in the Middle Ages, the design of monuments and contemporary scientific research in cognitive neuropsychology. The papers were originally presented at the 1994 meetings of the College Art Association and the International Congresses of Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, and the University of Leeds, England, in 1995.
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 602
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