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Author: Lisa Benz St. John
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012-05-17
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781349294831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an innovative study offering the first examination of how three fourteenth-century English queens, Margaret of France, Isabella of France, and Philippa of Hainault, exercised power and authority. It frames its analysis around four major themes: gender; status; the concept of the crown; and power and authority.
Author: Pauline Stafford
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2001-06-08
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780631227380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough detailed study of these women the author demonstrates the integral place of royal queens in the rule of the English kingdom and in the process of unification by which England was made.
Author: Anne Duggan
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780851158815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe image, status and function of queens and empresses, regnant and consort, in kingdoms stretching from England to Jerusalem in the European middle ages. Did queens exercise real or counterfeit power? Did the promotion of the cult of the Virgin enhance or restrict their sphere of action? Is it time to revise the early feminist view of women as victims? Important papers on Emma of England, Margaret of Scotland, coronation and burial ritual, Byzantine empresses and Scandinavian queens, among others, clearly indicate that a reassessment of the role of women in the world of medieval dynastic politics is under way. Contributors: JANOS BAK, GEORGE CONKLIN, PAUL CROSSLEY, VOLKER HONEMANN, STEINAR IMSEN, LIZ JAMES, KURT-ULRICH JASCHKE, SARAH LAMBERT, JANET L. NELSON, JOHN C. PARSONS, KAREN PRATT, DION SMYTHE, PAULINE STAFFORD, MARY STROLL, VALERIE WALL, ELIZABETH WARD, DIANA WEBB.
Author: Helen E. Maurer
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781843831044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMargaret of Anjou is the most notorious of English medieval queens. In a man's world, how did she exercise power? By considering the constraints imposed upon Margaret's involvement in political activity by virtue of being a woman, this book sheds light on the convoluted politics of 15th century England.
Author: Lois L. Huneycutt
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780851159942
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This study will be valuable not only to those interested in English political history, but also to historians of women, the medieval church, and medieval culture."--Jacket.
Author: Carole Levin
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2009-03-01
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 0803229682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England, Carole Levin and Robert Bucholz provide a forum for the underexamined, anomalous reigns of queens in history. These regimes, primarily regarded as interruptions to the ?normal? male monarchy, have been examined largely as isolated cases. This interdisciplinary study of queens throughout history examines their connections to one another, their constituents? perceptions of them, and the fallacies of their historical reputations. The contributors consider historical queens as well as fictional, mythic, and biblical queens and how they were represented in medieval and early modern England. They also give modern readers a glimpse into the early modern worldview, particularly regarding order, hierarchy, rulership, property, biology, and the relationship between the sexes. Considering topics as diverse as how Queen Elizabeth?s unmarried status affected the perception of her as a just and merciful queen to a reevaluation of ?good Queen Anne? as more than just an obese, conventional monarch, this volume encourages readers to reexamine previously held assumptions about the role of female monarchs in early modern history.
Author: Margaret Howell
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2001-05-08
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780631227397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt provides an unusually intimate and coherent picture of a woman who combined a remarkable aptitude for politics with a strong family commitment and warm friendships.
Author: J. L. Laynesmith
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0199247374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe last medieval queens of England were Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne Neville, and Elizabeth of York - four very different women whose lives and queenship were dominated by the Wars of the Roses. This book is not a traditional biography but a thematic study of the ideology and practice of queenship. It examines the motivations behind the choice of the first English-born queens, the multi-faceted rituals of coronation, childbirth, and funeral, the divided loyalties between family and king, and the significance of a position at the heart of the English power structure that could only be filled by a woman. It sheds new light on the queens' struggles to defend their children's rights to the throne, and argues that ideologically and politically a queen was integral to the proper exercise of mature kingship in this period.
Author: C. Beem
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-04-11
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0230118550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited volume brings together a collection of provocative essays examining a number of different facets of Elizabethan foreign affairs, encompassing England and The British Isles, Europe, and the dynamic civilization of Islam. As an entirely domestic queen who never physically left her realm, Elizabeth I cast an inordinately wide shadow in the world around her. The essays is this volume collectively reveal a queen and her kingdom much more connected and integrated into a much wider world than usually discussed in conventional studies of Elizabethan foreign affairs.
Author: Lisa Hilton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-11-15
Total Pages: 777
ISBN-13: 1639360646
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