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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Article | Crawford, Anne. | "Catherine de Medici's and the Performance of Political Motherhood." | Sixteenth Century Journal, 31:3, 2000, pp. 643-673. | Catherine de Medici | queenship, female power, political influence/participation, motherhood | Early Modern | France |
Article | Crawford, Anne.
| "The Queen�s Council in the Middle Ages." | The English Historical Review, 116: 469, 2001a, pp. 1193�1211 | Eleanor of Castile; Eleanor of Provence; references to Anne of Denmark; Henrietta Maria; Joan of Navarre; and others | queenship, female power, political & court culture, counsel, council, diplomacy | Early Modern | Scotland |
Monograph | Crawford, Katherine. | Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France. | Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. | Catherine de Medici; Marie de Medici; Anne of Austria; Louis XIV of France; Philippe d'Orleans; and others | queenship, female power, kingship, regents/regency, gender roles, male regent, political influence/participation, court culture, visual & literary representation/depictions | Early Modern | France |
Chapter | Crossley, Paul. | "The Architecture of Queenship: Royal Saints, Female Dynasties and the Spread of Gothic Architecture in Central Europe." | In Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe: Proceedings of a Conference held at King's College London, April 1995, ed. Anne J. Duggan. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2002. | Elizabeth of Hungary (St Elizabeth); references to Frederick II, Andrew II of Hungary, Bela III, and others | queenship, female power, female saints, architecture, patronage, familial networks, religious devotion/piety, papal/religious politics, political culture, alliances, | Medieval | Germany/Europe |
Chapter | Cruz, Anne J. | "Juana of Austria: Patron of the Arts and Regnant of Spain, 1554-59." | In The Rule of Women in Early Modern Europe, eds. Anne J. Cruz and Mihoko Suzuki, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. | Juana of Austria; references to Isabel of Castile (la Catolica); Juana of Castile; Isabel of Portugal; Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor; and others | queenship, female power, regent/regency, dynasty/dynastic politics, marriage alliances, royal children, religious persona, reputation, political/religious factions, military leader, visual representation | Early Modern | Spain |
Edited Collection | Cruz, Anne J. and Maria Galli Stampino, eds. | Early Modern Habsburg Women: Transnational Contexts, Cultural Conflicts, Dynastic Continuities. | Surrey: Ashgate, 2013. | Anne of Austria; Margarita of Austria; Margherita of Savoy-Gonzaga; Maria de Medici; Maria Luisa of Orleans; Mariana of Austria; Isabel de Valois; Isabel Clara Eugenia; Isabel of Borbon (Elizabeth of France); Maria Maddalena of Austria; Juana (Joanna) of Austria; Isabel of Castile; and others | queenship, female power, consort, regent/regency, co-rule, religious conflict/culture, political influence/participation, royal household, familial bonds/networks, nobility/elite culture, literary & visual representation/depictions, marriage/marital relations, matrimonial alliances, dynasty7dynastic politics, political & court culture, symbolism, ceremony, ritual, spectacles, succession, dowery, monastic culture, patronage, travel, cultural exchange | Early Modern | Europe |
Edited Collection | Cruz, Anne J. and Mihoko Suzuki, eds. | The Rule of Women in Early Modern Europe. | Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. | UNAVAILABLE | UNAVAILABLE | Early Modern | Europe |
Chapter | Currie, Joy. | "Mary Queen of Scots as Suffering Woman: Representations by Mary Stuart and William Wordsworth." | In High and Mighty Queens of Early Modern England: Realities and Representation, eds. Carole Levin, Jo Eldrige Carney and Debra Barret-Graves, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. | Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots; references to Elizabeth I of England; Mary of Guise; Francis II of France | queenship, female power, representations, literary depictions, propaganda, loyalty, image,/self-presentation, religious devotion/piety, suffering | Early Modern | Scotland/England |
Chapter | Czerwiec, Heidi. | "GRACE: O�Malley Meets the English Queen (1593)." | In Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens, eds. Carole Levin and Christine Stewart-Nunez, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. | Grace O'Malley; Elizabeth I of England | queenship, female power, poems, gender roles, representation/depictions | Early Modern | England |
Chapter | C�rceles, M. Narbona. | "Leonor de Trast�mara." | In Reinas de Navarra, ed. Julia Pavon, Madrid: Silex/Gobierno de Navarra, 2014. | Leonor de Trastamara (Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Navarre) | queenship, female power, reputation | Medieval | Spain |
Source Book | D'Albret, Jeanne; Kathleen M. Llewellyn, Emily E. Thompson, and Colette H. Winn, trans. | Letters from the Queen of Navarre with an Ample Declaration. | Toronto: Iter Academic Press, 2016. | Jeanne d'Albret | queenship, female power, letters/correspondence, epistolary culture, political & court culture, religious culture, reform, literary criticism, family, motherhood, political influence/participation | Early Modern | Spain/France |
Chapter | Dahlinger, James H. | "Etienne Pasquier on French History and Female Strategies of Power." | In Queenship, Gender, and Reputation in the Medieval and Early Modern West, 1060-1600, eds. Zita Eva Rohr and Lisa Benz, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. | Catherine de Medici; Fredagonda; Blanche of Castile; Isabeau (Isabel) of Bavaria; Louise of Savoy; and others | queenship, female power, public/private sphere, gender ideology/roles, reputation, royal authority, female agency, political & cultural influence, popular memory, female consorts/regents, literary representation/depictions | Medieval/Early Modern | France |
Monograph | Dahmus, J. H. | Seven Medieval Queens. | Garden City: Doubleday, 1972. | UNAVAILABLE | UNAVAILABLE | Medieval | Europe |
Chapter | Danbury, Elizabeth. | "Queens and Powerful Women: Image and Authority." | In Good Impressions: Image and Authority in Medieval Seals, eds. No�l Adams, John Cherry and James Robinson, London: British Museum, 2008. | Elizabeth Woodville; Katherine of Valois; Cecily Neville; Margaret Beaufort; and others | queenship, female power, symbolism, heraldic shields, portraiture, seals | Medieval | Europe |
Thesis | Dark, P. A. | "The Career of Matilda of Boulogne as Countess and Queen in England, 1135�1152" | Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. | Matilda of Boulogne, Queen of England | UNAVAILABLE | Medieval | England |
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