Chapter

Merton, Charlotte.

"Women, Friendship, and Memory."

In Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth, eds. Alice Hunt and Anna Whitelock, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Elizabeth I of England; Katherine Carey, Lady Knollys;

queenship, female power, friendship, female networks/relationships, court culture, royal household, memory

Early Modern

England

Chapter

Meyerson, Mark.

"Defending Their Jewish Subjects: Elionor of Sicily, Maria de Luna, and the Jews of Morvedre."

In Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain, ed. Theresa Earenfight, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.

Elionor of Sicily; Maria de Luna; references to Pere III of Aragon; Ferdinand I of Aragon; Leonor of Castile; Alfonso III of Aragon-Catalonia; and others

queenship, female power, religious conflict, rebellion, piety, political influence/participation, persona/characterisation, literary representation/depictions, finances/treasury

Medieval

Spain

Chapter

Mielke, Christopher.

"Lifestyles of the Rich and (In?)Animate: Object Biography and the Reliquary Cross of Queen Adelaide of Hungary."

In Queenship, Gender, and Reputation in the Medieval and Early Modern West, 1060-1600, eds. Zita Eva Rohr and Lisa Benz, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Adelaide of Hungary; Ladislas I of Hungary; Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor; John II Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium; and others

queenship, female power, objects/reliquaries, female agency, popular memory/legacy, gender, material culture, afterlife, meaning/symbolism

Medieval

Europe

Article

Milam, Jennifer.

"Imagining Marie Antoinette: Cultural Memory, Coolness and the Deconstruction of History in Cinema."

French History & Civilization, 4, 2011, pp. 45-53.

Marie Antoinette

queenship, female power, cultural memory, legacy/reputation, cinematic & literary representations/depictions

Early Modern

France

Monograph

Millan, Betty.

Monstrous Regiment: Women Rulers in Men's Worlds.

London: The Kensal Press, 1982.

Cleopatra; Pulcheria; Amalasuntha; Empress Wu; Irene, Byzantine Empress; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Matilda (Maude), Holy Roman Empress; Urraca of Leon-Castile; Melisende of Jerusalem; Blanche of Castile; Leonor of Portugal; Agnea of Austria; Isabella of Castile; Margaret of Austria; Katherine of Aragon; Anne of Beaujeu; Elizabeth I of England; Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots; Christine de Pizan; Christina of Sweden; Catherine II (the Great) of Russia; Victoria of Great Britain; Isabel II of Spain; and many others

queenship, female power, gender/gender roles, literary & visual representations/depictions, marriage, dynasty/dynastic politics, political influence/participation, political & court culture, motherhood, religious devotion/character

Ancient/Medieval/Early Modern/Modern

Global

Chapter

Miller, Dean A.

"Byzantine Sovereignty and Feminine Potencies."

In Women and Sovereignty, ed. Louise Olga Fradenburg, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992.

Irene of Athens; Leo VI (the Wise), Emperor of Byzantium; Basil II (Bulgar Slayer), Emperor of Byzantium; Zoe Porphyrogenita, Empress of Byzantium; Constantine VIII, Emperor of Byzantium; Constantine IX Monomachos; and others

sovereignty/sovereign rule, kingship, cultural image, political symbolism, masculinity/femininity, imperial kingship structures, consorts, theoretical/institutional ideology, female kingship/rulership, imperial iconography, visual representation/depictions

Medieval

Mediterranean/Byzantium

monograph

Misztal, Mariusz

The Victorian Royal Nursery, 1840-1865. Creation, Organisation, Staff, Financingrica."

Krakow: Universitas, 2020

Queen Victoria; Albert, Prince Consort

royal nursery; royal children; marriage; health; pregnancy; royal household; Civil List; royal accoucheur; gossip; servants

Victorian

England

article; sources

Misztal, Mariusz

"The Intimate Picture of Queen Victoria and her Household, 1840-1843. Extracts from the Diary of Dr Robert Ferguson, the Queen's Accoucheur"

Theatrum Historiae, 2017, 21, pp. 141-165,

Queen Victoria; Albert, prince Consort

royal household; royal nursery; pregnancy; mental health; gossip

Victorian

England

Chapter

Mitchell, Linda E.

"Joan de Valence: A Lady of Substance."

In Writing Medieval Women�s Lives, eds. C. Golby and A. Livingstone, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Joan de Valence; references to Joan of Acre; Edward I of England (Edward the Confessor); Henry III of France; Maria of Castile; and others

female power, political influence/participation, royal family, political & court culture, widow, inheritance, travels

Medieval

England

Monograph

Mitchell, Mairin.

Berengaria: Enigmatic Queen of England.

Burwash Weald: A. Wright, 1986.

Berengaria of Navarre

UNAVAILABLE

Medieval

England

Chapter

Mitchell, Silvia Z.

"Habsburg Motherhood: The Power of Mariana of Austria, Mother and Regent for Carlos II of Spain."

In Early Modern Habsburg Women: Transnational Contexts, Cultural Conflicts, Dynastic Continuities, eds. Anne J. Cruz and Maria Galli Stampino, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013.

Mariana of Austria; references to Carlos II of Spain; Philip IV of Spain; and others

queenship, female power/authority, royal marriage, motherhood, regent/regency, political influence/participation, political & court culture, political discourse, diplomacy, foreign relations

Early Modern

Spain

Source Book

Monro, Cecil, ed.

Letters of Margaret of Anjou and Bishop Beckington and Others: Written in the Reigns of Henry V and Henry VI.

New York: AMS Press, 1968.

Margaret of Anjou; references to Henry V of England; Henry VI of England; and others

queenship, female power, correspondence, epistolary culture, political & court culture, source material

Medieval

England

Monograph

Monter, William.

The Rise of Female Kings in Europe, 1300-1800.

New Haven: Yale University Press: 2012.

Anna Leopoldovna of Russia; Beatriz of Portugal; Blanca of Navarre; Catherine I of Russia; Catherine II (the Great) of Russia; Christina of Sweden; Elizabeth I of England; Isabella I of Castile; Isabel Clara Eugenia; Jeanne II of Navarre; Jeanne d' Albret; Joanna I of Naples; Juana of Castile; Margaret of Austria; Margaret of Denmark; Maria I of Portugal; Maria of Burgundy; Mary of Hungary; Mary I of England; Catherine de Medici; Tamar of Georgia; and many others

queenship, kingship, female power, religion ideology/conflict, political & court culture, religious devotion, marriage, regents/regency, consorts, misogyny, gender/gender roles, female bodies, literary & visual representations/depictions

Medieval/Early Modern

Europe

Article

Monter, William.

"Gendered Sovereignty: Numismatics and Female Monarchs in Europe 1300-1800."

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 41:4, 2011, pp. 533-564.

References to Maria Theresa of Austria; Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots; Mary of Guise; Cleopatra; Tamar of Georgia; Urraca of Leon-Castile; Matilda (Maude), Holy Roman Empress; Isabel la Catolica (Isabelle of Castile); Elizabeth I of England; and many others

queenship, female kingship, female power, gender/gender roles, sovereignty, historiography, coins/currency, numismatics, material culture,

Medieval/Early Modern

Europe

Source Book

Montpensier, Anne-Marie-Louise d�Orleans; Joan Dejean, ed. and trans.

Against Marriage: The Correspondence of La Grande Mademoiselle.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Anne-Marie-Louise d�Orleans; Louis XIV of France; and others

female power, correspondence, epistolary culture, marriage alliances, political power/influence, female writers

Early Modern

France