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Author(s)
Source Type
Publication Title
Publication Details
Monarch/Figure
Keywords
Period(s)
Place(s)
Heale, Elizabeth.
Chapter
"Contesting Terms Loyal Catholicism and Lord Montague's Entertainment at Cowdray, 1591.:
In The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I, eds. Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, and Sarah Knight, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Elizabeth I of England; references to Henri IV of France; Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots; Mary I of England; and others
queenship, female power, political/religious conflict, language/rhetoric, loyalty, religious policies, pageants/entertainments, royal visit, power relations, recusants, royal favour, religious persecution
Early Modern
England
Healy, Robert M.
Chapter
"Elizabethan Entertainments in Manuscript The Harefield Festivities (1602) and the Dynamics of Exchange."
In The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I, eds. Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, and Sarah Knight, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Elizabeth I of England; references to James VI/I of Scotland/England; and others
queenship, female power, literary exchange, entertainments/pageants, material texts, access, historical manuscripts, print/literary culture, court culture
Early Modern
England
Healy, Robert M.; John Knox
Article
"Waiting for Deborah: John Knox and Four Ruling Queens."
The Sixteenth Century Journal, 25:2, 1994, pp. 371-386.
Mary I of England; Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots; Mary of Guise; Elizabeth I of England; references to Edward VI of England; Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor; and others
queenship, female monarchy, religious ideology/conflict, divine right, biblical female figures, literary representation/depictions, authority/power
Early Modern
England/Scotland/France
Hedeman, Anne D.
Monograph
The Royal Image: Illustrations of the Grandes chroniques de France, 1274�1422.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
Louis IX of France; Charlemagne; Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor; Charles V of France; Clotilda of France; Isabeau of Bavaria; Jeanne of Evreux; Louis VIII of France; Philip Augustus of France; Christine de Pizan; and others
monarchy, kingship, queenship, female participation, chronicles, royal imagery, literary & visual representations/depictions, court & political culture, dynasty
Medieval
France
Heffernan, Troy.
Chapter
"Never the Queen: Anne Stuart�s Formative Years."
In Unexpected Heirs in Early Modern Europe: Potential Kings and Queens, ed. Valerie Schutte, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Anne Stuart, Queen of England; references to Mary II of England; Charles I of England; Charles II of England; and others
queenship, succession, unexpected heir, queen regnant, education/upbringing, political/religious beliefs, leadership, perceptions of rule/ruling
Early Modern
England
Heidecker, Karl.
Monograph
The Divorce of Lothar II: Christian Marriage and Political Power in the Carolingian World.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010.
Lothar II of Lotharingia; Theutberga;
monarchy, kingship/queenship, marriage, divorce, religious politics, theology
Medieval
Europe
Heisch, Allison.
Article
"Queen Elizabeth I: Parliamentary Rhetoric and the Exercise of Power."
Signs, 1(1), 1975, pp. 31�55.
Elizabeth I of England
queenship, female power, literary representation/depictions, speeches, rhetoric, diplomacy, gender roles, nature of women
Early Modern
England
Helms, Dietrich.
Article
"Henry VIII's Book: Teaching Music to Royal Children."
The Musical Quarterly, 92:1-2, 2009, pp. 118-135.
Henry VIII of England; references to Mary I of England; Edward VI of England; Katherine of Aragon; and others
monarchy, kingship, royal children, education, secular music, court culture, musical composition
Early Modern
England
Hen, Yitzhak.
Chapter
"Gender and the Patronage of Culture in Merovingian Gaul."
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.
References to Pippin III (Pepin the Short) of Franks; Sigibert I (Sigebert) of Austrasia; Brunhild (Brunhilda of Austrasia); Chilperic I of Neustria; Fredegund, Queen of Neustria/Soissons; Charibert I of Paris; Radegund (abbess) of Thuringia; and others
gender/gender roles, patronage/sponsorship, court & aristocratic culture, religious culture, male/female patronage, comparative study
Medieval
Europe
Henderson, Simon.
Article
"Catherine the Great - Enlightened Empress?"
History Review, 51, 2005, pp. 14-19.
Catherine II (the Great) of Russia
queenship, female power, government, enlightenment, religious toleration, cultural influence, political power/participation
Modern
Russia
Hendserson, Diana E.
Chapter
"Elizabeth's Watchful Eye and George Peele's Gaze: Examining Female Power Beyond the Individual."
In Women and Sovereignty, ed. Louise Olga Fradenburg, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992.
Elizabeth I of England; references to Philip II of Spain; Francis, Duke of Anjou; and others
queenship, female power, political image-making, gender/gender identity, literary & visual representation/depictions, court drama/play, female political power, political & court culture, literary criticism
Early Modern
England
Henry, Dennis.
Chapter
"Maude and Ellie Play Chess."
In Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens, eds. Carole Levin and Christine Stewart-Nunez, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Matilda (Maude), Holy Roman Empress; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Henry II of England; and others
play, representation/persona, female power, queen regnant
Medieval
England
Herbert, Maire.
Chapter
"Goddess and King: The Sacred Marriage in Early Ireland."
In Women and Sovereignty, ed. Louise Olga Fradenburg, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992.
Medb of Cruachu; Medb Lethderg of Leinster; and others
sacred marriage, Irish culture, myth/mythic imagery, royal ideology, female sovereignty, literary representation/depiction, iconography, gender roles, nature of women, mythological figures
Early Modern
Ireland
Herman, Eleanor.
Monograph
Sex with Kings: Five Hundred Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge.
New York: Harper Perennial, 2004.
Alexander II of Russia; Alfonso IV of Portugal; Alfonso XI of Castile; Anne of Austria; Anne Boleyn; Caroline of Ansbach; Catherine de Medici; Catherine of Braganza, Charles II of Great Britain; Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor; Edward VII of Great Britain; Edward VIII of United Kingdom; Frederick III of Prussia; Harald of Norway; Henri IV of France; Henry VIII of England; Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor; Juana the Mad; Louis XIV of France; Ludwig II of Bavaria; Maximilian II of Bavaria; Philip IV of Spain; Richard I of England; Sophia Dorothea of Prussia; Marguerite de Valois; William I, the Conqueror of England; and others
kingship, female power, mistresses, political & court culture, royal marriage, religion, succession, dynasty, bastards, heirs, religious ideology, reputation, literary & visual representation depictions
Medieval/Early Modern/Modern
Europe
Herman, Eleanor.
Monograph
Sex with the Queen: Nine Hundred Years of Vile Kings, Virlie Lovers, and Passionate Politics.
New York: Harper Perennial, 2006.
Anne Boleyn; Caroline Matilda of Denmark; Carline of Brunswick; Catherine Howard; Sophia Dorothea of Prussia; Alexandra, Empress of Russia; Diana, Princess of Wales; Elise of Tuscany; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Elizabeth de Valois of Spain; Eudoxia of Russia; Hortense of the Netherlands; Isabell II of Spain; Isabel of Castile; Maria Carolina of Naples; Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress; and others
queenship, female power, agency, royal marriage, royal authority, reputation, nature of women, gender roles, imagery, virtues, literary & visual representation, political & court culture, religion, religious ideology
Medieval/Early Modern/Modern
Europe
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