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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Source Book | Giustinian, Sebastian; R. Brown, ed. and trans. | Four Years at the Court of Henry VIII: Selection of Despatches Written by the Venetian Ambassador, Sebastian Giustinian, and Addressed to the Signory of Venice, January 12th, 1515, to July 26th, 1519. | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. | Henry VIII of England | kingship/court culture | Early Modern | England |
Thesis | Glyn, Elizabeth L. | �Negotiating Queenship from Malory to Shakespeare.� | PhD Thesis, King�s College London, 2015. | UNAVAILABLE | UNAVAILABLE | Early Modern | Europe |
Monograph | Gold, Claudia. | Queen, Empress, Concubine: Fifty Women Rulers from the Queen of Sheba to Catherine the Great. | London: Quercus, 2008. | UNAVAILABLE | UNAVAILABLE | Medieval/Early Modern/Modern | Global |
Chapter | Goldberg, P.J.P. | "Pigs and Prostitutes: Streetwalking in Comparative Perspective." | In Young Medieval Women, eds. Katherine J. Lewis, No�l James Menuge and Kim M. Phillips, New York: St. Martin�s Press, 1999. | N/A | royal court, prostitution, laws/ordinances, symbolism/imagery, female behaviour, single women, sexuality, nature of women, gender/gender roles, religious authorities | Medieval | Europe |
Chapter | Goldring, Elizabeth. | "Portraiture, Patronage, and the Progresses Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the Kenilworth Festivities of 1575." | 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 Philip II of Spain; and others | queenship, female power, portraiture, patronage, royal progresses, political & court culture, pageants/entertainments, public display, visual culture, political & personal agenda/aims | Early Modern | England |
Monograph | Goldstone, Nancy. | The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem and Scicily. | New York: Walker and Company, 2009. | Joanna I of Sicily | queenship, female power, reputation, political & matrimonial alliance, military leadership, scandal, political & court culture, assassination, murder, biography | Medieval | Italy |
Monograph | Goldstone, Nancy. | Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe. | London: Penguin Books, 2007. | Marguerite (Margaret) of Provence, Queen of France; Eleanor of Provence, Queen of England; Sanchia of Provence, Queen of the Romans; Beatrice of Provence, Queen of Sicily; and others | queenship, female power, familial bonds/relations, alliance, political aspirations, biography | Medieval | Europe |
Monograph | Goldstone, Nancy. | The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom. | London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016. | Catherine de Medici; Marguerite de Valois | queenship, female power, familial bonds/relations, religious conflict, political & court culture, mother/daughter dynamics | Early Modern | France |
Monograph | Goldstone, Nancy. | Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots. | London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018. | Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia; Elisabeth of the Palatine (Princess-Abbess of Herford Abbey); Louise Hollandine (Abbess of Maubuisson); Henriette Marie of the Palatine; Sophia of Hanover; Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots; and others | queenship, female power, royal children, marriage/marriage negotiations, foreign relations, diplomacy, biography | Early Modern | England/Europe |
Edited Collection | Goldy, C., and A. Livingstone. | Writing Medieval Women�s Lives. | Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. | Anastasia Iaroslavna of Hungary; Anna Iaroslavna of France; Blanca of Navarre; Catalina of Castile; Catalina of Lancaster; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Eleanor of Castile; Eleanor of England; Emma of Altdorf, Queen of East Francia; Evparksia Vsevolodovna, Empress of Germany; Isabel I of Castile; Isabelle (Isabella/Elizabeth) of England, Holy Roman Empress; Leonor of Albuquerque; Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon; Sanxia of Naples; Sophia of Hungary; and others | female power, literary representations/depictions, female saints, nuns, convents, marriage, gender roles, political culture, friendship, political influence/participation, dowries, female/family networks, correspondence/epistolary culture, letter writing, religious politics/conflict, devotion/piety, patronage, mother/motherhood, regency, widows | Medieval | Europe |
Monograph | Gomes, Rita Costa. | The Making of Court Society: Kings and Nobles in Late Medieval Portugal. | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. | Alfonso (Afonso) I of Portugal; Alfonso (Afonso) III of Portugal; Alfonso (Afonso) IV of Portugal; Alfonso (Afonso) V of Portugal; Beatriz of Castile; Dinas (Denis) of Portugal; Duarte (Edward) of Portugal; Eleanor of Castile; Fernando I of Portugal; Isabel of Portugal; John I of Portugal; Leonor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal; Leonor Teles, Queen of Portugal; Pedro I of Castile, King of Portugal; Philippa of Lancaster; Urraca of Castile, Queen of Portugal; and many more | kingship, monarchy, marriage/marital relations, succession, political & court culture, religious politics/conflict, queenship, female networks, religious women, ceremony/rituals, spectacles, royal household/palace, religious authority, chapels, literary & visual representation/depictions, diplomacy, foreign relations, food, daily life, itinerant court, mobility, hunting, nobility/noble families, patronage | Medieval | Portugal |
Article | Gonzales Cuerva, Ruben. | "From the Empress to the Ambassador: 'The Spanish Faction' and the Labrythinths of the Imperial Court of Prague, 1575-1585." | Librosdelacorte.es, 2:7, 2015, pp. 1-13. | Mary of Austria; Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor; Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor | diplomacy, court culture, royal household, | Early Modern | Spain/Europe |
Thesis | Gonz�lez Marrero, M. del C. | "La Casa de Isabel la Cat�lica: espacios dom�sticos y vida cotidiana." | �vila: Diputaci�n de �vila, Instituci�n Gran Duque de Alba, 2004. | Isabel la Catolica (Isabella I of Castile) | UNAVAILABLE | Medieval/Early Modern | Spain |
Chapter | Gonz�lez, Eileen McKiernan. | "Reception, Gender, and Memory: Elisenda de Montcada and Her Dual-Effigy Tomb at Santa Maria de Pedralbes." | In Reassessing the Roles of Women as �Makers� of Medieval Art and Architecture, ed. Therese Martin, Leiden: Brill, 2012. | Elisenda de Montcade i de Pinos, Queen of Aragon; references to Juame (James) II of Aragon; Maria of Hungary; and others | queenship, female power, funerary monuments, reception/audiences, religious women/nuns, politics & power of self-representation, iconography, religious devotion/piety | Medieval | Italy |
Chapter | Gonz�lez, Sonsoles Garcia. | "Las exequias de Reinas e Infantas en los reinos cristianos de la Pen�nsula Ib�rica (siglos XI-XIII)." | 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/Portugal/Iberia |
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