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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Thesis | Horvat, M. T. | "Queen Sancha of Arag�n and the Royal Monastery of Sigena" | Doctoral Dissertation, University of Kansas, 1994. | Sancha of Aragon | UNAVAILABLE | Early Modern | Europe |
Chapter | Houben, Birgit and Dries Raeymaekers. | "Women and the Politics of Access at the Court of Brussels: The Infanta Isabella�s Camareras Mayores (1598�1633)." | In The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-Waiting across Early Modern Europe, eds. Nadine Akkerman and Birgit Houben, Leiden: Brill, 2014. | Isabella Clara Eugenia; Albert of Austria; Elizabeth of Valois; Philip II of Spain; Anne of Austria; and others | female power, political & court culture, politics of access, female agents, gender roles, royal patronage, household, female servants, ladies-in-waiting | Early Modern | Europe |
Chapter | Houben, Birgit. | "Intimacy and Politics: Isabel and her Ladies-in-Waiting (1621-33)." | In Isabel Clara Eugenia: Female Sovereignty in the Courts of Madrid and Brussels, ed. Cordula van Wyhe, London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2011. | Isabel Clara Eugenia | queenship, female power, ladies-in-waiting, intimacy, political & court culture, influence | Early Modern | Europe |
Chapter | Houlbrooke, Ralph. | "What Happened to Mary�s Councillors?" | In Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth, eds. Alice Hunt and Anna Whitelock, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. | Mary I of England; Elizabeth I of England | queenship, religious policy, privy councillors, political/religious culture | Early Modern | England |
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 | Early Modern | England |
Chapter | Howe, Elizabeth Teresa. | "Zenobia or Penelope? Isabel la Catolica as Literary Example." | In Isabel la Cat�lica, Queen of Castile: Critical Essays, ed. David Boruchoff, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. | Isabel I of Castile (Isabel la Catolica); references to Christine de Pizan | queenship, female power, literary & visual representation/depictions, reputation, persona | Early Modern | Spain |
Chapter | Howell, Margaret. | "Royal Women of England and France in the Mid-Thirteenth Century: A Gendered Perspective." | In England and Europe in the Reign of Henry III (1216�1272), edited by Bjorn K.U. Weller and Ifor W. Rowlands, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002. | Henry III of England; Louis IX of France; Eleanor de Montfort; Beatrice of Brittany; Isabelle of Angouleme; Joan of Scotland; Eleanor of Provence; Marguerite of Provence; Sanchia of Provence; Beatrice of Provence; Margaret of Scotland; Eleanor of Castile; Blanche of Castile; and others | queenship, female power, sovereignty, political influence/participation, religious persona/devotion, gender roles, nature of women, political & court culture, royal marriage | Medieval | England/France |
Monograph | Howell, Margaret. | Eleanor of Provence: Queenship in Thirteenth-Century England. | Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. | Eleanor of Provence; reference to Henry III of England; Beatrice of Savoy; and others | queenship, female power, political participation/influence, motherhood, royal marriage, correspondence/epistolary culture, foreign relations, diplomacy, royal children, regent | Medieval | England |
Chapter | Howell, Martha C. | "Citizenship and Gender: Women's Political Status in Northern Medieval Cities." | In Women and Power in the Middle Ages, eds. Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988. | N/A | female power, political status, gender/gender roles, elite women, public roles, citizenship, civic participation, identity, marriage/wives, widow | Medieval | Europe |
Chapter | Howey, Catherine L. | "Fashioning Monarchy: Women, Dress, and Power at the Court of Elizabeth I (1558-1603)." | In The Rule of Women in Early Modern Europe, eds. Anne J. Cruz and Mihoko Suzuki, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. | Elizabeth I of England; references to Henry VIII of England; and others | queenship, female power, clothing/fashion, gifts/gift giving, political & court culture, political meaning/significance, diplomacy, statecraft, foreign relations, sartorial exchange, political identity | Early Modern | England |
Article | Howey, Catherine L. | "Dressing a Virgin Queen: Court Women, Dress, and Fashioning the Image of England�s Queen Elizabeth I." | Early Modern Women, 4, 2009, pp. 201�208 | Elizabeth I of England | queenship, female power, political & court culture, imagery, dress/fashion, symbolism, literary & visual representation/depictions | Early Modern | England |
Chapter | Hughes, Lindsay. | "Catherine I of Russia, Consort to Peter the Great." | In Queenship in Europe, 1660-1815: The Role of Consort, ed. Clarissa Campbell Orr, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. | Catherine I of Russia; Peter the Great of Russia (Peter I); references to Catherine II of England; Elizabeth Petrovna, Queen of Russia; Alexis of Russia; Fedor (Feodor) III of Russian; Ivan V of Russian, and others | queenship, female power, consort, court politics, cultural affairs, elite women, religious court culture/rituals, ceremony, royal mistresses | Early Modern | Russia |
Monograph | Hughes-Hallett, Lucy. | Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions. | New York: Harper and Row, 1990. | Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt; references to Julius Caesar; Antony | queenship, female power, imagery, symbolism, literary criticism, literary & visual representation/depictions, popular culture, cultural memory | Medieval/Early Modern | Global |
Chapter | Humphrey, Patricia. | "Ermessenda of Barcelona: The Status of her Authority." | In Queens, Regents and Potentates, ed. Theresa M. Vann, Cambridge: Crampton and Sons Ltd, 1993. | Ermessenda of Barcelona (also known as 'of Carcassonne') | queenship, female power, status, authority, political participation/influence, religious politics/influence, martial leadership | Medieval | Spain |
Chapter | Huneycutt, Lois L. | "Alianora Regina Anglorum: Eleanor of Aquitaine and Her Anglo-Norman Predecessors as Queens of England." | In Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady, eds. Bonnie Wheeler and John C. Parsons, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. | Eleanor of Aquitaine | queenship, reputation, court culture, patronage, perceptions/expectations of female rule | Medieval | England/France |
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