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Author(s)
Source Type
Publication Title
Publication Details
Monarch/Figure
Keywords
Period(s)
Place(s)
Carpenter, Sarah.
Article
"Performing Diplomacies: The 1560s Court Entertainments of Mary Queen of Scots."
The Scottish Historical Review, 82(214), 2003, pp. 194-225.
Mary Queen of Scots, references to Elizabeth I of England, Catherine de Medici, and others
queenship, female power, spectacles/entertainments, masque, diplomacy/diplomatic culture, court culture, rhetoric of performance
Early Modern
Scotland
Carroll, Jane.
Chapter
"Subversive Obedience: Images of Spiritual Reform by and for Fifteenth-Century Nuns."
In Reassessing the Roles of Women as �Makers� of Medieval Art and Architecture, ed. Therese Martin, Leiden: Brill, 2012.
Reference to Elizabeth of Hungary
female power/authority, book/art production, religious devotion/reform, female agency, nuns
Medieval
Europe
Carroll, Warren H.
Monograph
Isabel of Spain: The Catholic Queen.
Front Royal, VA: Christendom Press, 1991.
Isabel of Spain (Isabella of Castile)
biography, queenship, female power, political leader, religious devotion, political/religious/social reforms
Medieval
Spain
Carter, Susan.
Chapter
"A Hymenation of Hags."
In The English �Loathly Lady� Tales: Boundaries, Traditions, Motifs, eds. Elizabeth Passmore and Susan Carter, Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007.
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female power, sovereignty, political power, female sexuality, gender, representation/depictions
Medieval
Europe
Caspi-Reisfeld, Keren.
Chapter
"Women Warriors during the Crusades, 1095-1254."
In Gendering the Crusades, eds. Susan Edington and Sarah Lambert, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2001.
Queen Melisende; Marguerite; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Matilda (Maude); Matilda of Tuscany; and others
female power, female roles, chronicles/eye-witness accounts, religious motivations, representation/descriptions, female crusaders, diplomacy, warfare, honour, gender, behaviour, religious politics
Medieval
Europe/Mediterranean
Cassotti, Marsilio; A.I. Ruiz Barata, trans.
Monograph
Teresa: a primeira rainha de Portugal.
Lisbon: Esfera dos Livros, 2008.
Teresa of Portugal; references to Afonso Henriques I of Portugal
queenship, female power, consort, political leader/influence, marriage, religion
Medieval
Portugal
Casteen, Elizabeth
Thesis
"The Making of a Neapolitan She-Wolf: Gender, Sexuality, and Sovereignty and the Reputation of Johanna I of Naples."
Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Northwestern University, 2009.
Johanna (Joanna) I of Naples
queenship, female power, gender, sexuality, representation/depictions, reputation
Medieval
Italy
Casteen, Elizabeth.
Monograph
From She-Wolf To Martyr: The Reign and Disputed Reputation of Johanna I of Naples.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.
Johanna (Joanna) I of Naples; references to Andrew of Hungary; Louis of Taranto, King of Naples; Birgitta of Sweden; Catherine of Valois; Charles II of Anjou; Charles III of Durazzo, King of Naples; Christine de Pizan; Elizabeth I of England; Elizabeth of Poland, Queen of Hungary; Isabella I, Queen of Spain; James VI of Majorca; Louis I of Anjou; Louis I, King of Hungary; Otto of Brunswick; Robert of Anjou, King of Naples; Sancia of Majorca, Queen of Naples; and others
queenship, female power, religious devotion/piety, saints, performance of sovereignty, reputation, friendship, political & court culture, representation/depictions, gender norms, succession, religious dissent
Medieval
Italy
Castelot, Andre.
Monograph
Marie Antoinette.
London: Vallentine Mitchell, 1957.
Marie Antoinette
queenship, female power, reputation, political & court culture
Early Modern
France
Castle, Terry.
Chapter
"Marie-Antoinette Obsession."
In Marie-Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen, ed. Dena Goodman, New York: Routledge, 2003.
Marie Antoinette
female power, lesbianism, sexuality, cultural influence, popular culture
Early Modern
France
Castle, Terry.
Article
"Marie Antoinette Obsession."
Representations, 38, 1992, pp. 1-38.
Marie Antoinette
female power, lesbianism, literary representations/depictions, popular culture
Early Modern
France
Castor, Helen.
Monograph
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth.
London: Faber and Faber, 2010.
Matilda (Maude); Eleanor of Aquitaine; Isabella of France; Margaret of Anjou; and others
queenship, female power, representation/depictions, reputation, political & cultural influence, court culture
Medieval/Early Modern
England
Catherine The Great; Mark Cruse and Hilde Hoogenboom, trans.
Source Book
The Memoirs of Catherine the Great
New York: Modern Library, 2006.
Catherine the Great (Catherine II) of Russia
queenship, female power, memoirs
Early Modern
Russia
Cavell, Emma.
Article
"Henry VII, the North of England and the first Provincial Progress of 1486."
Northern History, 39:2, 2002, pp. 187-207.
Henry VII of England
royal authority, royal progresses, governance
Medieval/Early Modern
England
Cavell, Emma.
Monograph
The Herald's Memoir, 1486-1490: Court Ceremony, Royal Progress and Rebellion.
Donnington: Richard III and Yorkist History Trust, 2009.
Henry VII of England
kingship, royal progress, ceremony, royal authority, governance
Medieval/Early Modern
England
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