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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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