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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chapter | Kassler, Michael, ed. | "Volume 1: The Memoirs of Charlotte Papendiek (1765�1840): Court, Musical and Artistic Life in the Time of King George III." | In Memoirs of the Court of George III, ed. Michael Kassler, Alain Kerherv� and Lorna J. Clark, London: Pickering & Chatto, 2015. | George III of Great Britain; Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | kingship, royal authority, royal family, marriage, political & court culture, memoirs, queen consort, royal servants, patronage, artistic/musical culture, conduct/behaviours | Modern | England |
Chapter | Kassler, Michael, ed. | "Volume 4: The Diary of Queen Charlotte, 1789 and 1794." | In Memoirs of the Court of George III, ed. Michael Kassler, Alain Kerherv� and Lorna J. Clark, London: Pickering & Chatto, 2015. | George III of Great Britain; Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | kingship, royal authority, royal family, marriage, political & court culture, memoirs, queen consort, royal servants, patronage, artistic/musical culture, conduct/behaviours | Modern | England |
Chapter | Katz, Melissa R. | "The Non-Gendered Appeal of Vierge Ouvrante Sculpture: Audience, Patronage, and Purpose in Medieval Iberia." | In Reassessing the Roles of Women as �Makers� of Medieval Art and Architecture, ed. Therese Martin, Leiden: Brill, 2012. | Hedwig of Silesia; Philip II of Spain; Violante de Aragon; Charles V of France; and others | female power/authority, gendered language/behaviour, female agency, patronage, deovtional images, art/sculpture, architecture, religious iconography | Medieval | Iberia |
Chapter | Katz, Melissa. | "The Final Testament of Violante de Aragon (c.1236-1300/01): Agency and (dis)Empowerment of a Dowager Queen." | In Queenship in the Mediterranean: Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras, ed. Elena Woodacre, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. | Violante of Aragon; references to Urraca of Leon; Bereguela of Castile; Isabel la Catolica (Isabella of Castile) and others | queenship, female power, female agency, dowager, afterlife, representation/depiction, queen consorts, widowhood, political authority | Medieval | Mediterranean |
Monograph | Keane, Marguerite. | Material Culture and Queenship in 14th-century France: The Testament of Blanche of Navarre (1331�1398). | Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. | Blanche of Navarre; references to Agnes of France; Blanche of Castile; Charles II of Navarre; Charles V of France; Edward III of England; Isabeau of Bavaria; Jeanne of Bourbon; Jeanne of Burgundy; Jeanne of Evreux; Marie of Navarre; Marie of Brabant; Philip VI of France; and others | queenship, female power, patronage, legacy/reputation, material culture, literature/texts, books/book culture, legal documents, reliquaries, altarpieces, paintings/portraits, literary & visual representation/depictions, jewellery, textiles, meaning, symbolism, imagery, iconography, motherhood | Medieval | France |
Article | Keane, Marguerite. | "Most beautiful and Next Best: Value in the Collection of a Medieval Queen." | Journal of Medieval History, 34, 2008, 360�373. | Blanche of Navarre; references to Jeanne of �vreux; Blanche of Orleans; Philip IV of France; and others | queenship, female power, material culture, will, artworks, relics, legacy, reputation/cultural memory, royal family, heirs/inheritance, religious devotion/iconography | Medieval | Europe |
Chapter | Keen, Caroline. | "The Rise and Fall of Saddiq Hasan, Male Consort of Shah Jahan of Bhopal." | In The Man Behind the Queen: Male Consorts in History, eds. Charles Beem and Miles Taylor, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. | Saddiq Hasan; Shah Jahan of Bhopal | consort, political influence, marital relations, dynasty, negative reputation, characterisation, ambitious, female political influence | Modern | India |
Chapter | Keenan, Siobhan. | "Spectator and Spectacle Royal Entertainments at the Universities in the 1560s." | 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 Charles II of Austria; and others | queenship, female power, spectacles, audience, reception, entertainments/pageants, institutions of learning, education, scholars, counsel, religious conformity, succession, royal marriage | Early Modern | England |
Thesis | Keene, Katie. | �Margaret of Scotland: The Biography of an Eleventh-century Queen and Saint.� | Doctoral Dissertation, Southern Methodist University, 2006. | Margaret of Scotland | queenship, female power, biography, religious devotion, saint | Medieval | Scotland |
Chapter | Keller, Katrin. | "Ladies-in-Waiting at the Imperial Court of Vienna from 1550 to 1700: Structures, Responsibilities and Career Patterns." | In The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-Waiting across Early Modern Europe, eds. Nadine Akkerman and Birgit Houben, Leiden: Brill, 2014. | Bianca Maria Sforza; Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor; Anna of Bohemia and Hungary; Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor; Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor; and others | female power, ladies-in-waiting, female courtiers, royal household, political & court culture, household structure, separate courts, residences, access, female activities, female behaviour, model for female household | Early Modern | Europe/Austria |
Chapter | Kellogg, Judith. | "Le Livre de la cit� des dames: Reconfiguring Knowledge and Reimagining Gendered Space." | In Christine de Pizan: A Casebook, eds. Barbara K. Altmann and Deborah L. McGrady. London: Routledge, 2003. | Christine de Pizan | female power, gender roles/spaces, wives/mothers, domesticity/private sphere, allegory, literary criticism, social structures | Medieval | France |
Monograph | Kelly, Amy. | Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings. | Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978. | Eleanor of Aquitaine; references to Adele of Champagne; Berengaria of England; Conrad III, Holy Roman Emperor; Constance of Sicily, Holy Roman Empress; Henry II of England; Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor; Isabella of Angouleme; Joanna of Sicily; John (Lackland) of England; Louis VII of France; Matilda (Maude), Holy Roman Empress; Philip II of France; Richard I of England; and others | queenship, female power, legacy, reputation, political influence/participation, intellectual culture, patronage, feud, royal marriage, motherhood, royal children, political & court culture | Medieval | England |
Edited Collection | Kelly, Christopher, ed. _ | Theodosius II: _Rethinking the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity. | Cambridge: _Cambridge University Press, 2013. | Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor; references to Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor; Pulcheria; Licinia Eudoxia, Western Roman Empress; Aelia Eudocia Augusta, Eastern Roman Empress; and others | kingship, royal authority, power, governance, political & court culture, religious worship/spirituality, education, writing, poetry/panegyric, imperialism, memory, gender/gender roles | Medieval | Europe |
Chapter | Kempton, Daniel. | "Christine de Pizan's Cite des Dames and Tresor de la Cite: Toward a Femenist Scriptual Practice." | In Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women, eds. Carole Levin and Patrica A. Sullivan, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. | Christine de Pizan; references to Elizabeth I of England; and others | female power, Renaissance women, female writers/scholar, gender/gender roles, literary representation/depictions, literary criticism, political influence, nature of women | Medieval | Europe |
Chapter | Kennedy, Gwynne. | "Reform or Rebellion?: The Limits of Female Authority in Elizabeth Cary's The History of the Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II." | In Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women, eds. Carole Levin and Patrica A. Sullivan, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. | Isabel (Isabella) of France; Edward II of England; Elizabeth Cary | female power/authority, literary & visual representation/depictions, female writers, obedience, gender/gender roles, royal marriage, political & court culture, religious character, reputation, cultural memory | Medieval | England/France |
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