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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 | Nash, Penelope. | Empress Adelheid and Countess Matilda: Medieval Female Rulership and the Foundations of European Society. | New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017. | Adelheid (Adelaide) of Italy, Holy Roman Empress; Matilda of Tuscany | queenship, female power, diplomacy, foreign relations, property/wealth, literary representations/depictions, legacy/cultural memory, kin, familial bonds, motherhood | Medieval | Europe |
Chapter | Nassiet, Michel. | "Anne de Bretagne: A Woman of State." | 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, stateswoman, reputation/character, virtues, political persona/status, marriage treaty/alliance, foreign relations, political culture | Early Modern | France |
Chapter | Nast, Heidi J. | "Women, Royalty, and Indigo Dyeing in Northern Nigeria, circa 1500-1807." | In Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History, ed. Anne Walthall, California: University of California Press, 2008. | Muhammadu Rumfa; Suleiman; and others | female power, textile production, female industry, concubines, royal wives, indigo-dye, rituals, symbolism, royal court | Early Modern/Modern | Nigeria/Africa |
Monograph | Neale, John Ernest. | The Age of Catherine de Medici. | London: Cape, 1957. | Catherine de Medici; references to Mary I of England; Philip II of Spain; Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor; Elizabeth I of England; Henry II of France; and others | queenship, female power, religious conflict/patronage, political influence/participation, diplomacy, foreign relations, political & court culture | Early Modern | France |
Chapter | Nelson, Janet L. | "Early Medieval Rites of Queen-making and the Shaping of Medieval Queenship." | 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. | Charles the Bald; Ermentrude; Judith, Queen of the West Saxons; and others | queenship, female power, rites/rituals, ceremony, symbolism, representation/depictions, consecrations, religious patrons, models of rulership | Medieval | Europe |
Chapter | Nelson, Janet L. | "Women at the Court of Charlemagne: A Case of Monstrous Regiment." | In Medieval Queenship, ed. John Carmi Parsons, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1998. | Irene of Athens, Empress of Byzantium; Leo IV, Emperor of Byzantium; Charlemagne; Constantine VI; and others | queenship, female power, imagery, female writers, friendship networks, epistolary/manuscript exchange, rituals, traditions, regent, diplomacy, foreign relations, papal influence, royal marriage, nature of women, gendered/female representation/depictions | Medieval | France/Europe |
Chapter | Nelson, Janet L. | "Gendering Courts in the Early Medieval West." | In Gender in the Early Medieval World: East and West, 300�900, eds. Leslie Brubaker and Julia M. H. Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. | Radegund (Rodegunda/Radegunda) of Thuringia; Balthild; Charlemagne | queenship, female power, gender/gender roles, court culture, cultural agents, religious patronage, convents, marriage, religious devotion, motherhood/maternal nurturing, domesticity | Medieval | France/Europe |
Chapter | Nelson, Karen L. | "Negotiating Exile: Henrietta Maria, Elizabeth of Bohemia, and the Court of Charles I." | In High and Mighty Queens of Early Modern England: Realities and Representation, eds. Carole Levin, Jo Eldrige Carney and Debra Barret-Graves, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. | Henrietta Maria; Elizabeth of Bohemia; references to Charles I of England; Marie de Medici; Louis XIII of France; Pope Urban VIII; and others | queenship, female power, court culture, behaviours/customs, foreign relations, political influence/culture, familial relations, royal household, authority | Early Modern | England |
Monograph | Nem�sio, Vitorino. | Isabel de Arag�o, rainha santa. | Lisbon: Edi��es Panoram, 1960. | Isabel (Elizabeth) of Aragon | UNAVAILABLE | Medieval | Portugal |
Chapter | Neverova, Natalia. | "The Emperor and Diplomatic Relations: Rudolf II through the Eyes of Foreign Ambassadors." | In The Image and Perceptions of Monarchy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, eds. Sean Mcglynn and Elena Woodacre, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. | Rudolf II; references to Henri III of France; Henri IV of France; Elizabeth I of England; Feodor I of Russia; and others | kingship, monarchy, diplomacy, foreign/diplomatic relations, ambassadors/ambassadorial culture, correspondence/epistolary culture, patronage, political culture, literary representations/depictions, reputation | Early Modern | Prague/Czech Republic |
Chapter | Newman, Barbara. | "Did Goddesses Empower Women? The Case of Dame Nature." | In Gendering The Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages, eds. Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski, New York: Cornell University Press, 2003. | Christine de Pizan | female power, literary representations/depictions, literary criticism, female saints/figures, allegorical goddesses, nature of women, sexuality, gender roles, motherhood, womanhood | Medieval | Europe |
Chapter | Newstok, Scott L. | "'Turn thy Tombe into a Throne': Elizabeth I's Death Rehearsal." | In Goddesses and Queens: The Iconography of Elizabeth I, eds. Annaliese Connolly and Lisa Hopkins, Manchester University Press, 2007. | Elizabeth I of England; references to Henry VII of England; Arthur Tudor; Henry VIII of England; Mary I of England; James VI/I of Scotland/England; Edward VI of England; Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor; and others | queenship, female rule, iconography, mortality, afterlife, epitaph, speeches, presentations/depictions, political culture, dual body concept | Early Modern | England |
Chapter | Nicholas, Karen. | "Women as Rulers: Countess Jeanne and Marguerite of Flanders." | In Queens, Regents and Potentates, ed. Theresa M. Vann, Cambridge: Crampton and Sons Ltd, 1993. | Marguerite of Flanders; Jeanne of Flanders (Joan of Constantinople); references to Eleanor of Aquitaine; Henry II of England; Blanche of Castile; Louis IX of France; and others | queenship, female power/rule, gender roles/ideology, ceremony, literary representation/depictions, | Medieval | Europe |
Chapter | Nichols, Andrea. | "'I was not I?': Tracing the Representations of Cleopatra in English Drama, 1592�1611." | In Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens, eds. Carole Levin and Christine Stewart-Nunez, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. | Cleopatra; references to Mary I of England; Elizabeth I of England; Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots | queenship, female power, representations, literary depictions, image, sexuality, motherhood, drama/theatre, court culture | Early Modern | England |
Source Book | Nichols, John; Elizabeth Goldring, Faith Eales, Elizabeth Clarke, and Jayne Elisabeth Archer, eds. | The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth I: A New Edition of Early Modern Sources. Volumes I-V | Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. | Elizabeth I of England | queenship, female power, source material, royal progresses, public processions, spectacles/entertainments, pageants, ceremony/rituals, political & court culture, religious discourse/conformity | Early Modern | England |
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