Boyd, Mildred.

Monograph

Rulers in Petticoats.

New York: Criterion, 1966.

Hatshepsut; Cleopatra; Boudicca, Theodora; Catherine de Medici; Christina of Sweden; Maria Theresa; Catherine the Great (Catherine II) of Russia; Tzu Hsi; Elizabeth II of England

queenship, female power, biography

Medieval/Early Modern/Modern

Global

Brabant, Margaret, ed.

Edited Collection

Politics, Gender and Genre: The Political Thought of Christine de Pizan.

Boulder: Westview Press, 1992.

Christine de Pizan

female power, gender roles, history of political thought

Medieval

France

Bradbury, Jim.

Monograph

Stephen and Matilda: The Civil War, 1139�1154.

Stroud: Sutton, 1996.

Matilda I of Bouglogne; Stephen (Stephen of Blois)

kingship, queenship, female power, military campaigns, political control

Medieval

England

Braddock, Robert C.

Chapter

"To Serve the Queen."

In Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth, eds. Alice Hunt and Anna Whitelock, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Mary I of England; Elizabeth I of England

queenship, female authority, royal household, political offices/officers, political & court culture

Early Modern

England

Brady, Ciaran.

Chapter

"Coming into the Weigh-house: Elizabeth I and the Government of Ireland."

In Elizabeth I and Ireland, eds. Brendan Kane and Valerie McGowan-Doyle, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Elizabeth I of England; Grace O'Malley

queenship, female power, foreign/national relations, political culture, petitions, law/legal statute, cultural/political governance/encounters

Early Modern

England/Ireland

Bratsch-Prince, Dawn; Mar�a Morr�s, trans.

Monograph

Violante de Bar (1365�1431).

Madrid: Edicl�s, 2002

Violant de Bar, Queen of Aragon; John I of Aragon

queen regent, female power, writings/correspondence, political influence

Medieval

Spain

Bray, Julia.

Chapter

"Men, Women and Slaves in Abbasid Society."

In Gender in the Early Medieval World: East and West, 300�900, eds. Leslie Brubaker and Julia M. H. Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

al-Madhi; Hassan ibn Sinan; al-Khaysuran, Salsal

female power/agency, gender roles, religious influence, poetry/literature, slavery, conversion, concubines

Ancient/Medieval

Middle East/Western Asia

Breger, Claudia.

Chapter

"The �Berlin� Nefertiti Bust: Imperial Fantasies in Twentieth-Century German Archaeological Discourse."

In The Body of the Queen: Gender and Rule in the Courtly World, 1500-2000, ed. Regina Schulte, New York: Berghahn Books, 2006.

Nefertiti

queenship/kingship, female rule, cultural symbolism/associations, imagination/fantasy, depictions, Egyptian history, archaeology, German culture, dual body concept/Kantorowicz

Ancient/Modern

Germany/Egypt

Brice, Catherine.

Chapter

"Queen Margherita (1851�1926): 'The Only Man in the House of Savoy'."

In The Body of the Queen: Gender and Rule in the Courtly World, 1500-2000, ed. Regina Schulte, New York: Berghahn Books, 2006.

Margherita of Savoy

queenship, consort, political power/influence, constitutional monarchy

Modern

Italy

Britland, Karen.

Chapter

"Queen Henrietta Maria's Theatrical Patronage."

In Henrietta Maria: Piety, Politics and Patronage, ed. Erin Griffey, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2008.

Henrietta Maria of France, Queen of England

queenship, patronage, theatre/entertainments, court culture, political & cultural plays

Early Modern

England

Brogan, Stephen.

Monograph

The Royal Touch in Early Modern England: Politics, Medicine, and Sin.

London: Royal Historical Society, 2015.

Edward the Confessor; Edward I of England; Edward II of England; Edward III of England; Henry VI of England; Henry VII of England; Henry VIII of England; Edward VI of England; Mary I of England; Elizabeth I of England; James VI/I of Scotland/England; James II of England; Charles I of England; Charles II of England; Louis IX of France; Eleanor of Provence; Anne Stuart, Queen of England; and others

monarchy, royal touch, symbolics, dual body concept, ceremony, medicine/illness, sin, religious belief, royal authority, relics

Early Modern

England

Bronfen, Elisabeth and Barbara Straumann.

Chapter

"Political Visions: The Two Bodies of Elizabeth I."

In The Rituals and Rhetoric of Queenship: Medieval to Early Modern, eds. Liz Oakley-Brown and Louise J. Wilkinson, Dublin: Four Courts, 2009.

Elizabeth I of England

queenship, portraiture, film depictions, celebrity, portrayals

Early Modern

England

Broomhall, Susan.

Chapter

"Fit for a King? The Gendered Emotional Performances of Catherine de Medici as Dauphine of France, 1536�1547."

In Unexpected Heirs in Early Modern Europe: Potential Kings and Queens, ed. Valerie Schutte, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Catherine de Medici; references to Charles IX of France; Margaret of Navarre; Margaret of France; and others

queenship, royal marriage, court culture, dauphine, political influence/status, emotional intelligence, performance, display, motherhood, widowhood

Early Modern

France

Brotton, Jerry.

Monograph

The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam.

New York: Viking, 2016.

Elizabeth I of England; Sultan Murad III

queenship, foreign relations, alliances, trade, global exploration, diplomacy

Early Modern

England/Middle East/Western Asia

Brown, Beatrice Curtis, ed.

Source Book

The Letters and Diplomatic Instructions of Queen Anne.

London: Cassell, 1968.

Anne (Stuart) of Great Britain

queenship, female power, royal authority, diplomacy, epistolary culture

Early Modern

England