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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Monograph | Loades, David. | Tudor Queens of England. | London: Continuum, 2009. | Catherine de Valois; Margaret of Anjou; Elizabeth Woodville; Elizabeth of York; Catherine of Aragon; Anne of Cleves; Anne Boleyn; Jane Seymour; Katherine Parr; Catherine Howard; Jane Grey; Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots; Mary I of England; Elizabeth I of England; references to Henry VII of England; Henry VIII of England; Edward VI of England; and others | queenship, female power, imagery, literary & visual representations/depictions, gender/gender roles, nature of women, political & court culture, political/religious/cultural influence, sexuality, sexual misconduct, royal heirs, succession, foreign relations, diplomacy, symbolism/rituals, patronage | Medieval/Early Modern | England |
Monograph | Lockhart, Paul Douglas. | Denmark, 1513-1660: The Rise and Decline of a Renaissance Monarchy. | Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. | Christian IV of Denmark; references to Christian III of Denmark; Frederik II Denmark/Norway; Anna Catherine of Brandenburg; Sofie (Sophie) of Mecklenburg-G�strow; James I/VI of England/Scotland; Christina of Sweden; Gustav II of Sweden; and others | kingship, institution of monarchy, social/political structures, political & court culture, foreign relations, diplomacy, religious worship/ideology, statecraft | Early Modern | Denmark |
Chapter | Logan, Sandra. | "Thrice Royal Queen: Katherine de Valois and the Tudor Monarchy in Henry V and Englands Heroicall Epistles." | In The Rule of Women in Early Modern Europe, eds. Anne J. Cruz and Mihoko Suzuki, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. | Katherine de Valois; references to Henry VII of England; Richard III of England; Margaret Beaufort; Charles IV of France; Isabeau of Bavaria; Henry V of England; and others | queenship, female power, chronicles, literary representations/depictions, literary criticism, patriarchal ideology, cultural memory, cultural & political heritage, national identity | Medieval/Early Modern | England |
Monograph | Loomis, Catherine. | The Death of Elizabeth I: Remembering and Reconstructing the Virgin Queen. | Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. | Elizabeth I of England | queenship, female power, legacy, cultural memory, death, afterlife, literary & visual representations/depictions, elegies, plays/drama, public displays | Early Modern | England |
Chapter | Loomis, Catherine. | "A Great Reckoning in a Little Room: Elizabeth, Essex, and Royal Interruptions." | In Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies, ed. Anna Rielh Bertolet, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. | Elizabeth I of England | queenship, female power, political leadership/career, public vs private, court culture/governance, political actions, literary representation/interpretations, bedchamber, private/intimate & gendered spaces | Early Modern | England |
Chapter | Loomis, Catherine. | "'Bear Your Body More Seeming': Open-Kneed Portraits of Elizabeth I." | In The Emblematic Queen Extra-Literary Representations of Early Modern Queenship, ed. Debra Barrett-Graves, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. | Elizabeth I of England; references to Emma (�lfgifa) of Normandy; Henry II of England; Henry VIII of England; Richard II of England; Mary I of England; Philip II of Spain; and others | queenship, female power, visual representation/depictions, portraiture, iconography, posture/pose, gendered bodies | Early Modern | England |
Chapter | Lopetegui, S. Herreros. | "Juana I." | In Reinas de Navarra, ed. Julia Pavon, Madrid: Silex/Gobierno de Navarra, 2014. | Juana I (Joanna/the Mad) of Castile | UNAVAILABLE | Early Modern | Spain |
Article | Louren�o, Paula Mar�al. | "The Household of Portuguese Queens in Modern Times: Patronage and Powers." | Mediterranean Studies,14, 2005, pp. 17-26. | UNAVAILABLE | queenship, female power, political & religious influence/participation, statecraft, absolute monarchy, | Early Modern | Portugal |
Chapter | Lozano, Jorge Sebasti�n. | "Choices and Consequences: The Construction of Isabel de Portugal's Image." | In Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain, ed. Theresa Earenfight, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. | Isabel of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress; references to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor; and others | queenship, female power, image/presentation, visual & material representations, expressions of power/position, regent/regency, artistic patronage, objects/material culture | Early Modern | Spain |
Chapter | Lyle, Emily. | "A Line of Queens as the Pivot of a Cosmology." | In Women and Sovereignty, ed. Louise Olga Fradenburg, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992. | Medb; Madhavi | sovereignty, cosmology, mythology/mythological figures, familial bonds/relationships, mother/daughter, matrilineal descent, kinship, political/social/cultural influence, deity | Medieval/Early Modern/Modern | Ireland/India |
Chapter | Lyon, Jonathan R. | "The Letters of Princess Sophia of Hungary, a Nun at Admont." | In Writing Medieval Women�s Lives, eds. C. Golby and A. Livingstone, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. | Sophia of Hungary; references to Bela II of Hungary; Conrad III of Germany; Geza II of Hungary; and others | female power, letter writing/correspondence/epistolary culture, nuns, religious women, saints, literacy, female/friendship networks, religious/political influence/participation | Medieval | Germany/Hungary |
Chapter | L�Estrange, Elizabeth. | "Penitence, Motherhood and Passion Devotion: Contextualizing Anne de Bretagne's Prayer Book, Chicago, Newberry Library, MS 83." | In The Cultural and Political Legacy of Anne de Bretagne: Negotiating Convention in Books and Documents, ed. Cynthia J. Brown, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2010. | Anne de Bretagne (Anne of Brittany); references to Charles VIII of France; Louis XII of France; and others | queenship, motherhood, religious devotion, prayer books, penitence/indulgence, images/illustrations, book/print culture | Early Modern | France |
Monograph | L�Estrange, Elizabeth. | Holy Motherhood: Gender, Dynasty, and Visual Culture in the Later Middle Ages. | Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008. | Anne of Brittany (Anne de Bretagne); Yolande of Aragon; Charles VIII of France; and others | female power, motherhood, gender/gender roles, visual/material culture, manuscripts, text, imagery/illustrations, childbirth, ceremony/rituals, religious iconography, prayers, agency, dynasty, patronage | Medieval | Europe |
Monograph | MacKay, Ruth. | The Limits of Royal Authority: Resistance and Obedience in Seventeenth-Century Castile. | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. | Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor; Philip II of Spain; Philip III of Spain; Philip IV of Spain; and others | kingship, monarchical power, royal authority, resistance, obedience, political culture, nobility/aristocracy, litigation/jurisdiction, military recruitment/leadership, political influence, society & culture, gender/gender roles, social & political hierarchies | Early Modern | Spain |
Monograph | MacLean, Simon. | Ottonian Queenship. | Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. | Agnes of Poitou, Holy Roman Empress; Bertha of Swabia; Gerberga of Saxony; Adelheid of Italy, Holy Roman Empress; Luidprand of Cremona; Hrotsvitha of Gendersheim; Judith of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empress; Theophanu, Holy Roman Empress; Cunigunde, Holy Roman Empress; and others | queenship, female power, literary & visual representation/depictions, cultural memory, reputation, status, royal family, political & court culture, political/religious/cultural influence | Medieval | Europe |
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