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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 | Ives, Eric W. | "The Fall of Anne Boleyn Reconsidered." | The English Historical Review, 107:424, 1992, pp. 651-664. | Anne Boleyn | queenship, female power, reputation, cultural memory, popular culture, political & court culture, execution, historiography | Early Modern | England |
Monograph | Ives, Eric. | The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: 'the most happy'. | Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2013. | Anne Boleyn | queenship, female power, legacy/cultural memory, popular culture, political/religious influence, patronage, spirituality | Early Modern | England |
Article | Ives, Eric. | "Anne Boleyn on Trial Again." | The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 62:4, 2011, pp. 763-777. | Anne Boleyn | queenship, female power, reputation, historiography, religious influence/practices, political/court/religious culture, religious texts | Early Modern | England |
Monograph | Jackson, Guida M. | Women Rulers throughout the Ages: An Illustrated Guide. | Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 1999. | Adela of Blois; Adelaide of Italy; Agnes of Poitou; Anna of Savoy; Anne of Austria; Blanche of Castile; Boudicca; Catherine II of Russia (the Great); Catherine de Medici; Catherine of Aragon; Catherine of Braganza; Chindok Yowang; Christine of France; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Elizabeth I of England; Jane Grey; Ide d'Alsace; Irene Palaeologina, Holy Roman Empress; Isabella I of Castile (Isabel la Catolica); Isabelle Clara Eugenia of Austria; Isabella of Bavaria; Joanna of Austria; Leonora Teles; Margaret of Anjou; Margaret of Brabant; Mary I of England; Matilda (Maude); Matilda of Scotland; Teresa of Castile; Theodora; Yolande of Aragon; and many others | queenship, female power, motherhood, regents/consorts, political authority/influence, divine right, gender roles, nature of women, governance, identity, literary & visual representations/depictions, | Medieval/Early Modern/Modern | Global |
Chapter | Jambeck, Karen K. | "Patterns of Women's Literary Patronage: England, 1200-ca. 1475." | In The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women, ed. June Hall McCash. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. | UNAVAILABLE | female power, literary patronage, elite/noble women, authority, religious influence/devotion, motherhood, wives, marriage, gender roles, matrilineal patterns | Medieval | England |
Chapter | James, Liz. | "Goddess, Whore, Wife or Slave? Will the real Byzantine Empress Please Stand Up?" | 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. | Theodora; Justinian I; references to Theodosios I; Pulcheria; Theodosios II; Leo I; Ariadne; and others | queenship, female power, regents/regencies, constructions of queenship, legal status, political influence, familial relations, dynastic politics, representation/depictions | Medieval | Europe/Mediterranean/Byzantium |
Article | James, Susan E. | "Lady Jane Grey or Queen Kateryn Parr?" | The Burlington Magazine, 138:1114, 1996, pp. 20�24. | Jane Grey; Katherine Parr; references to Henry VIII of England | queenship, female power, imagery, portraits, visual representations/depictions, historical evidence, provenance, fashion/jewellery, symbolism | Early Modern | England |
Chapter | Jansen, Douglas C. | "Women and Public Authority in the Thirteenth Century." | In Queens, Regents and Potentates, ed. Theresa M. Vann, Cambridge: Crampton and Sons Ltd, 1993. | UNAVAILABLE | UNAVAILABLE | Medieval | Europe |
Monograph | Jansen, Sharon L. | Debating Women, Politics and Power in Early Modern Europe. | New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008. | Mary I of England; Mary of Guise; Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots; Elizabeth I of England; Christine de Pizan; and others | queenship, female power, female regents, political authority/influence, texts/textual production, literary representation/depictions, gender roles, nature of women, female sovereignty, gynecocracy, public discourse, writings | Early Modern | Europe |
Monograph | Jansen, Sharon L. | The Monstrous Regument of Women: Female Rulers in Early Modern Europe. | New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002. | Isabella I of Castile; Margaret Beaufort; Caterina Sforza; Anne of France; and others | queenship, female power, rulership, leadership, public discourse, gender roles, nature of women, political & religious writings, | Early Modern | Europe |
Chapter | Janssens-Knorsch, Uta. | "From Het Loo to Hampton Court: William and Mary's Dutch Gardens and Their Influence on English Gardening." | In Fabrics and Fabrications The Myth and Making of William and Mary, eds. Paul Hoftijzer and C.C. Barfoot, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1990. | William III of England; Mary II of England | monarchy, architectural history, gardening | Early Modern | England |
Chapter | Jasperse, Jitske. | "To Have and to Hold: Coins and Seals as Evidence for Motherly Authority." | In Royal Mothers and Their Ruling Children: Wielding Political Authority From Antiquity to the Early Modern Era, eds. Elena Woodacre and Carey Fleiner, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. | Eleanor of Aquitaine; Richard I of England (the Lionheart); Blanche of Castile; Louis IX of France; Judith of Thuringia; Bertha of Lorraine; and others | queenship, female power, motherhood, motherly authority, material culture, political influence/participation, literary & visual representations/depictions, coinage, charters, | Medieval | Europe |
Article | Jasperse, Jitske. | "Matilda, Leonor and Joanna: the Plantagenet Sisters and the Display of Dynastic Connections through Material Culture." | Journal of Medieval History, 43:5, 2017, pp. 523-547. | Matilda of Saxony; Leonor of Castile; Joanna of Toulouse; Henry II of England; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Alfonso of Castile; William II of Sicily; and others | queenship, female power, familial relations, dynasty/dynastic politics, material culture, visual displays, foreign relations, alliances, diplomacy | Medieval | Europe |
Chapter | Jedrej, M.C. | "Rain Makers, Women, and Sovereignty in the Sahel and East Africa." | In Women and Sovereignty, ed. Louise Olga Fradenburg, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992. | UNAVAILABLE | female power, sovereignty, rain making, rituals, political power, mythology, marriage | Medieval/Early Modern/Modern | Africa |
Monograph | Jenkins, Elizabeth. | Elizabeth the Great. | London: Phoenix, 2000. | Elizabeth I of England | queenship, female power, political & court culture, reputation, persona | Early Modern | England |
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