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Queenship Historiography Database
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Source Type | Author(s) | Publication Title | Publication Details | Monarch/Figure | Keywords | Period(s) | Place(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Monograph | Carroll, Warren H. | 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 |
Chapter | Carter, Susan. | "A Hymenation of Hags." | In The English �Loathly Lady� Tales: Boundaries, Traditions, Motifs, eds. Elizabeth Passmore and Susan Carter, Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007. | UNAVAILABLE | female power, sovereignty, political power, female sexuality, gender, representation/depictions | Medieval | Europe |
Chapter | Caspi-Reisfeld, Keren. | "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 |
Monograph | Cassotti, Marsilio; A.I. Ruiz Barata, trans. | 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 |
Thesis | Casteen, Elizabeth | "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 | Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Northwestern University, 2009.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 |
Monograph | Casteen, Elizabeth. | 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 |
Monograph | Castelot, Andre. | Marie Antoinette. | London: Vallentine Mitchell, 1957. | Marie Antoinette | queenship, female power, reputation, political & court culture | Early Modern | France |
Chapter | Castle, Terry. | "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 |
Article | Castle, Terry. | "Marie Antoinette Obsession." | Representations, 38, 1992, pp. 1-38. | Marie Antoinette | female power, lesbianism, literary representations/depictions, popular culture | Early Modern | France |
Monograph | Castor, Helen. | 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 |
Source Book | Catherine The Great; Mark Cruse and Hilde Hoogenboom, trans. | 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 |
Article | Cavell, Emma. | "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 |
Monograph | Cavell, Emma. | 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 |
Article | Cavendish, Richard. | "Coronation of Queen Anne." | History Today, 52:4, 2002. | Anne Stuart, Queen of Great Britain; references to William III of England; George of Denmark | queenship, female power, coronation, ceremony, symbolism, reputation | Early Modern | England |
Chapter | Caviness, Madeline H. | "Anchoress, Abbess, and Queen: Donors and Patrons or Intercessors and Matrons?" | In The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women, ed. June Hall McCash. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. | Hildegard of Bingen; Mathilda (sister to Otto II); Emma Aelfgifu; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Blanche of Castile; and others | female power, patronage, abbess, female agents, religious/devotional imagery, monastic houses, sacred buildings, gendered bodies, nature of women, female roles, saints, biblical figures | Medieval | Europe |
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