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Author(s)
Source Type
Publication Title
Publication Details
Monarch/Figure
Keywords
Period(s)
Place(s)
Enright, Michael J.
Monograph
Lady with a Mead Cup: Ritual, Prophecy and Lordship in the European Warband from La T�ne to the Viking Age.
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1995.
UNAVAILABLE
kingship, queens, rituals, social & religious culture, drink/intoxication culture, symbolism/meaning, imagery
Medieval
Europe
Ensenyat Pujol, Gabriel.
Chapter
"La espiritualidad de las reinas de la casa real de Mallorca."
In Reginae Iberiae. El poder regio femenino en los reinos medievales peninsulares, eds. Miguel Garc�a-Fern�ndez and Silvia Cernadas Mart�nez, Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2015.
UNAVAILABLE
UNAVAILABLE
Medieval
Spain
Erler, Mary C. and Maryanne Kowaleski, eds.
Edited Collection
Gendering The Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages.
New York: Cornell University Press, 2003.
Boudicca; Bridget of Sweden; Catherine of Alexandria; Christine de Pizan; Elisabeth of Hungary; Isabella of Arundel; Jeanne, Queen of France; Joan of Arc; Mary of Brabant; and others
female power/agency, confession, religious piety/devotion, childbirth, literary representation/depictions, patronage, clergy/papacy, domestic sphere, consorts, political influence/participation, elite women, familial/kinship networks, gender roles, inheritance, literacy, law/legal status, marriage/marital relations, saints, authority, rituals/ceremony
Medieval
Europe
Erler, Mary C. and Maryanne Kowaleski, eds.
Edited Collection
Women and Power in the Middle Ages.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988.
UNAVAILABLE
UNAVAILABLE
Medieval
Europe
Estringana, Alicia Esteban.
Chapter
"'What a princess, Good God!': The Heritage and Legacy of Infanta Isabel."
In Isabel Clara Eugenia: Female Sovereignty in the Courts of Madrid and Brussels, ed. Cordula van Wyhe, London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2011.
Isabel Clara Eugenia
UNAVAILABLE
Early Modern
Spain
Etting, Vivian.
Monograph
Queen Margrethe I, 1353�1412, and the Founding of the Nordic Union.
Leiden: Brill, 2004.
Margrethe (Margaret) I of Norway
queenship, female power, political ambition/influence, political culture, character/reputation, literary & visual representation/depictions, Nordic union
Medieval
Norway/Denmark/ Sweden/Scandinavia
Evans, Michael R.
Chapter
"Queering Isabella: The 'She-Wolf of France' in Film and Television."
In Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture, eds. Janice North, Karl C. Alvestad and Elena Woodacre, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Isabella of France, Queen of England; references to Edward II of England; Philip IV of France; and others
queenship, female power, cinematic representations/depictions, gender roles, sexuality, homosexuality, masculinity/femininity
Medieval
England
Evans, Michael R.
Monograph
Inventing Eleanor: The Medieval and Post-Medieval Image of Eleanor of Aquitaine.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.
Eleanor of Aquitaine
queenship, female power, royal authority, reputation, legacy/myth, literary & visual representations/depictions, cultural memory, popular culture, political & court culture, motherhood, patronage
Medieval
England
Evans, Michael R.
Chapter
"Unfit to Bear Arms": The Gendering of Arms and Armour in Accounts of Women on Crusade."
In Gendering the Crusades, eds. Susan Edington and Sarah Lambert, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2001.
Margaret of Beverley; Christine de Pizan; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Juliana Fontevrault; and others
female power, gender roles, masculinity, literary representations/de�ictions, wives/mothers, armour, chronicles, gender stereotypes
Medieval
Europe/Mediterranean
Famiglietti, R. C.
Monograph
Royal Intrigue: Crisis at the Court of Charles VI (1392�1420).
New York: AMS Press, 1986.
Charles IV of France
kingship, warfare, military engagement, madness, political culture, foreign relations
Medieval
France
Famiglietti, R. C.
Monograph
Tales of the Marriage Bed from Medieval France (1300�1500).
Providence: Picardy Press, 1992.
Isabeau of Bavaria; Charles VI of France
queenship, female power, marriage/marital relations, gender/gender roles, nature of women, sexuality, adultery, murder, literary representation/depictions, persona/character
Medieval
France
Fawtier, Robert W.; Lionel Butler and R. J. Adam, trans.
Monograph
The Capetian Kings of France: Monarchy and Nation, 987-1328.
London: Macmillan, 1960.
Adela of Champagne; Bertrada de Montfort; Blanche of Castile; Charlemagne; Charles IV of France; Edward I of England; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor; Henry I of France; Henry II of England; Hugh, King of France; Isabella of Hainault; Isabella of France; Joan of Navarre; John, King of England; Louis VI of France; Louis VII of France; Louis VIII of France; Louis IX of France; Philip I of France; Philip II of France; Philip III of France; Philip IV of France; Robert II of France; William I (the Conqueror) of England; and others
kingship, politics, medieval government, political & court culture, foreign relations, diplomacy, queenship, female power, marriage/marital relations, royal children, motherhood
Medieval
France
Feldwick, Arlen.
Chapter
"Wits, Whigs and Women: Domestic Politics as Anti-Whig Rhetoric in Aphra Behn's Town Comedies."
In Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women, eds. Carole Levin and Patrica A. Sullivan, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.
UNAVAILABLE
UNAVAILABLE
Early Modern
Europe
Fenlon, Iain.
Chapter
"Competition and Emulation: Music and Dance for the Celebrations in Paris, 1612�1615."
In Dynastic Marriages 1612/1615: A Celebration of the Habsburg and Bourbon Unions, ed. Margaret M. McGowan, Farnham: Ashgate, 2013.
Frederick V, Elector of Palatine; Elizabeth of Bohemia; James VI/I of Scotland/England and others
spectacles/celebrations, ceremony, music, dance, fireworks, representation, symbolism/allegory, marriage, alliances, martial imagery, military power, political culture
Early Modern
France
Fenster, Thelma.
Chapter
"Who's a heroine? The example of Christine de Pizan."
In Christine de Pizan: A Casebook, eds. Barbara K. Altmann and Deborah L. McGrady. London: Routledge, 2003.
Christine de Pizan; references to Charles VI of France; Isabeau/Isabel of Bavaria
female power, court culture, poetry, female depictions, heroine, saintly/mythological figures,
Early Modern
France
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