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Source Type | Author(s) | Publication Title | Publication Details | Monarch/Figure | Keywords | Place(s) | Period(s) |
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Article | Helms, Dietrich. | "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 | England | Early Modern |
Monograph | Herman, Eleanor. | 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 | Europe | Medieval/Early Modern/Modern |
Source Book | Hincmar of Rheims; R. Stone and C. West, eds. and trans. | Hincmar of Rheims: On the Divorce of King Lothar and Queen Theutberga. | Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. | Lothar II of Lotharingia; Theutberga | kingship, queenship, royal marriage, divorce, popular memory, literary & visual representation/depictions, religious & political culture, translation, gender roles, magic/witchcraft | Europe | Medieval |
Monograph | Hoak, Dale E. | Tudor Political Culture. | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. | Henry VII of England; Henry VIII of England; Edward VI of England; Mary I of England; Elizabeth I of England | kingship, queenship, royal authority, political & court culture, propaganda, ceremony, foreign relations, diplomacy, rebellion, governance, law | England | Early Modern |
Monograph | Hoak, Dale E. | The King's Council in the Reign of Edward VI. | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. | Edward VI of England | kingship, political & court culture, council, imagery, counsel/advice, authority & power | England | Early Modern |
Monograph | Hoffman, Martha K. | Raised To Rule: Educating Royalty at the Court of the Spanish Habsburgs, 1601�1634. | Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. | Philip III of Spain; Philip IV of Spain: Anna of Austria, Queen of France; Maria Anna, Holy Roman Empress; Margaret of Austria | kingship, queenship, female power, education, royal children, childhood, gender, royal training, political & court culture, royal patrons, instructional texts, religious influence/patronage/ritual/devotion, courtship, marriage | Spain | Early Modern |
Edited Collection | Hoftijzer, Paul and C.C. Barfoot, eds. | Fabrics and Fabrications The Myth and Making of William and Mary. | Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1990. | William II of England; Mary II of England; James II of England; Charles II of England; Louis XIV of France; Elizabeth I of England; Elizabeth (Stuart) of Bohemia; Frederick V of Bohemia; and others | monarchy, diplomacy, foreign relations, religious conflict/refugees, restoration, informant networks, spies, kingship, religious controversy, political/court/religious culture, literary representation/depictions, propaganda, absolute monarchy, political & constitutional culture, queenship, female power, death/afterlife, tomb, literary representation/depictions, reputation, royal power/authority, imagery, religion/religious policies, political & court culture, education, institutions of learning, religious reform, religious buildings/churches, churchmanship, ecclesiastical authority, public worship, co-regency, cultural memory, political poems, philosophy, Glorious Revolution, correspondents/correspondence, popular culture/popular history, constitutional government, warfare, military engagement, literary criticism | England | Early Modern |
Monograph | Howarth, David. | Images of Rule: Art and Politics in the English Renaissance, 1485�1649. | Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997. | Mary I of England; Elizabeth I of England; Philip II of Spain; Henry VIII of England; Henri IV of France; Edward VI of England; Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor; and others | kingship, queenship, institution of monarchy, imagery, symbolism, art/painting, political & court culture, literary & visual representation/depictions, patronage, display | England | Early Modern |
Monograph | Husband, Timothy. | The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry. | New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. | Charles V of France; Isabeau of Bavaria; John II of France; Louis IX of France; Rene d'Anjou, King of Naples; Yolande of Aragon; and others | kingship, queenship, representations/depictions of queens and female saints, royal authority/influence, royal relations, personal devotion, manuscript culture, illumination, imagery/symbolism, religious ideology/imagery, | France | Medieval |
Article | Igual Castello, Cristina. | "Soliman el Magnifico y Roxolana. El Poder del Turco en la Cultura Visual y Escrita de Occidente." | Potestas, 9, 2016, pp. 233-260. | Soliman the Magnificent (Suleiman I); Roxolana | kingship, expressions of power, imagery/symbolism, architecture, role of women, harem, female power | Ottoman Empire/Europe/Turkey | Early Modern |
Antiquarian Sourcebook | Jones, Charles C. | Recollections of Royalty, from the Death of William Rufus, in 1100, to that of the Cardinal of York, the last lineal descendant of the Stuarts, in 1807. | London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1828. | Henry IV of England; Henry V of England; Henry VI of England; Edward IV of England; Richard III of England; Adelaide of Italy; Elizabeth I of England; Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots and many more | kingship, institution of monarchy, correspondence, queenship, female power, confessions, trials, royal authority, foreign relations, diplomacy, political & court culture, religious policies/conflict | England | Medieval/Early Modern |
Chapter | Jowitt, Claire. | "Captains, Kings, Queens: Politics, Piracy, and the Sea in Middleton�s The Phoenix (c.1603�04)." | In Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe: The Roles of Powerful Women and Queens, eds. Estelle Paranque, Nate Probasco, and Claire Jowitt, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. | References to Elizabeth I of England; James VI/I of Scotland/England, Walter Raleigh | queenship/kingship, gender politics, sea captains, drama/plays, imagery, literary depictions, national identity | England | Early Modern |
Monograph | Kantorowicz, Ernst. | The King�s Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology. | Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957. | Constantine I, Holy Roman Emperor (the Great); Charlemagne; Edward III of England; Henry VIII of England; James I/VI of England/Scotland; Henri III of France; Louis XIII of France; Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor; Margaret of Austria; Maria of Hungary; Elizabeth I of England; Maria Therese, Holy Roman Empress; Isabeau of Bavaria; and many others | institution of monarchy, kingship, royal power, political theology, dual body concept, political & religious ideology, ceremony/ritual, literary & visual representation/depictions, display/spectacle, sovereignty, authority, royal identity/iconography, polity, law/legal status, gendered bodies | Europe | Medieval/Early Modern |
Monograph | Karkov, Catherine. | The Ruler Portraits of Anglo-Saxon England. | Woodbridge: Boydell, 2004. | Alfred the Great; �thelstan of Anglo-Saxons/England; Edgar of England (the Peaceful); �lfgifu of England/Emma of Normandy; Cnut of Denmark/England/Norway (the Great); Edward of England (the Martyr); and others | institution of monarchy, kingship, queenship, imagery, leadership, royal authority, texts & authorship, learning, gender, effective rulership, visual genealogy, political & court culture, religious iconography, displays, paintings/portraits, religious influence, monastic reforms, piety/devotion | England | Medieval |
Edited Collection | Kassler, Michael, Alain Kerherv�, and Lorna J. Clark, eds. | Memoirs of the Court of George III. Volumes 1-4 | London: Pickering & Chatto, 2015. | George III of Great Britain; Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | kingship, royal authority, royal family, marriage, political & court culture, memoirs, royal children, motherhood, queen consort, royal servants, patronage, artistic/musical culture, conduct/behaviours | England | Modern |
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