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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) |
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Monograph | Opfell, Olga. | Queens, Empresses, Grand Duchesses and Regents: Women Rulers of Europe, A.D. 1328-1989. | Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company Inc Publshers, 1989. | Juana II of Aragon; Giovanna I of Naples; Maria of Hungary; Jadwiga of Poland; Margrethe I of Denmark/Norway/Sweden; Giovanna II of Naples; Blanca of Navarre; Isabella I (Isabel) of Castile; Leonor of Navarre; Catalina of Navarre (Catherine de Foix); Juana of Castile; Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots; Mary I of England; Jeanne d'Albret; Elizabeth I of England; Catherine de Medici; Kristina (Christina) of Sweden; Sophia of Russia; Mary II of England; Anne (Stuart) of Great Britain; Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden; Catherine I of Russia; Anna Ivanovna of Russia; Maria Theresa of Austria; Elizabeth of Russia; Catherine II (the Great) of Russia; Maria I of Portugal; Maria II of Portugal; Maria Cristina of Spain; Isabella II of Spain; Victoria of Great Britain; Maria Cristina II of Spain; Wilhelmina of the Netherlands; Juliana of the Netherlands; Elizabeth II of Great Britain; Margrethe II of Denmark; Beatrix of the Netherlands | queenship, female power, regents, regnants, political influence/participation, literary representation/depictions, political & court culture, diplomacy, foreign relations, motherhood, royal marriage | Medieval/Early Modern/Modern | Europe |
Chapter | Oresko, Robert. | "Maria Giovanna Battista of Savoy-Nemours (1644-1724): Daughter, Consort, and Regnant of Savoy." | In Queenship in Europe, 1660-1815: The Role of Consort, ed. Clarissa Campbell Orr, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. | Maria Giovanna Battista of Savoy-Nemours; references to Mari�-Christine of Bourbon; Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor; Anne of Austria; and others | queenship, female power, consort/regent, dynastic politics/relations, political power/influence, court culture, female agency, patronage | Early Modern | France/Italy |
Chapter | Orlin, Lena Cowen. | "The Fictional Families of Elizabeth I." | In Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women, eds. Carole Levin and Patricia A. Sullivan, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. | Elizabeth I of England | queenship, female power, familial bonds/relations, rhetoric, patriarchy, gender, familial tropes | Early Modern | England |
Edited Collection | Orr, Clarissa Campbell, ed. | Queenship in Europe, 1660-1815: The Role of Consort. | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. | Anna Ivanova; Anna Leopoldovna; Anna Sophia Charlotte of Saxony-Eisenach; Anne Stuart, Queen of Great Britain; Anne of Austria; Barbara of Braganza; Lucrezia Borgia; Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach; Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark/Norway; Catherine I; Catherine the Great (Catherine II); Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz; Christine Eberhardine of Poland; Eleanore of Pfalz-Neuburg; Elisabeth Christine of Prussia; Elisabeth Christine of Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel, Empress; Hedwig Eleonora, Queen of Sweden; Juliana Maria, Queen of Denmark/Norway; Louisa Ulrica, Queen of Prussia; Maria Francisca Isabel, Queen of Portugal; Maria Josepha, Queen of Poland; Marie Leszczynska, Queen of France; Sophia Charlotte, Queen of Prussia; Sophie Dorothea, Queen of Prussia; Wilhelmine Amalia of Braunschweig-Luneburg; and many others | queenship, female power, consorts, formal/informal power, religion/religious role, cultural patronage, dynastic politics, court culture, female networks, | Early Modern/Modern | Europe |
Chapter | Orr, Clarissa Campbell. | "Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Great Britain and Electress of Hanover: Northern Dynasties and the Northern Republic of Letters." | In Queenship in Europe, 1660-1815: The Role of Consort, ed. Clarissa Campbell Orr, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. | Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Great Britain | queenship, female power, dynasty/dynastic politics, letters | Early Modern | England |
Chapter | Orr, Clarissa Campbell. | "Queen Charlotte, Scientific Queen." | In Queenship in Britain, 1660�1837: Royal Patronage, Court Culture and Dynastic Politics, ed. Clarissa Campbell-Orr, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002. | Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Great Britain; references to George III of England | queenship, female power, patronage, Christian Enlightenment, public representations, court culture, persona | Early Modern | England/Britain |
Chapter | Orr, Clarissa Campbell. | "Marriage in a Global Context: Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland." | In Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c.1500-1800, eds. Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly and Adam Morton, London: Routledge, 2017. | Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz; George III of Great Britain and Ireland | female power, marriage, foreign relations/diplomacy, geography, nature of women, gender roles | Early Modern | Britain |
Article | Orso, Steven N. | "Praising the Queen: The Decorations at the Royal Exequies for Isabella of Bourbon." | The Art Bulletin, 72:1, 1990b, pp. 51�73. | Isabella of Bourbon; Philip IV of Spain | queenship, female power, royal exequies, ceremony, traditions, decorations/display, literary & visual representations/depictions, political influence/governance, commemorative rites, statecraft, imagery, royal authority | Early Modern | Spain |
Chapter | Osherow, Michele. | "'Give ear, O princes': Deborah, Elizabeth, and the Right Word." | In Elizabeth I and the 'Sovereign Arts': Essays in Literature, History, and Culture, eds. Carole Levin, Donald Stump and Linda Shenk, Tempe: The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011. | Elizabeth I of England | queenship, female power, biblical heroines/figures, public displays/spectacles, literary & visual representations/depictions, allegory, royal authority, rhetoric/language, imagery/symbolism | Early Modern | England |
Chapter | Osherow, Michele. | "Crafting Queens: Early Modern Readings of Esther." | In Queens & Power in Medieval and Early Modern England, eds. Carole Levin and Robert Bucholz, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. | Esther; Judith, Hester, Deborah (biblical references); Elizabeth I of England | female power, biblical figures, literary depictions/representation, female behaviour, virtues, female authority, performance of femininity, sexuality, gender roles, female identity | Early Modern | England |
Monograph | Owen, D. D. R. | Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen and Legend. | Oxford: Blackwell, 1993. | Eleanor of Aquitaine; references to Adela of Blois/Champagne; Agnes of Burgundy; Berengaria; Charlemagne; Constance of Brittany; Louis VII of France; Henry II of England; Matilda (Maude), Holy Roman Empress; and many others | queenship, female power, dynasty/dynastic politics, lineage, reputation/legacy, cultural memory, literary & visual representations/depictions, female politician/influence | Medieval | England/France |
Chapter | Paden, William. | "Troubadours and History." | In The World of Eleanor of Aquitaine: Literature and Society in Southern France between the Eleventh and Thirteenth Centuries, eds. Marcus Bull and Catherine L�glu. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2005. | Eleanor of Aquitaine | troubadours, poetry, literature/literary culture, music/songs, language | Medieval | France |
Monograph | Pallar�s Mendez, M. C. and E. Portela. | La Reina Urraca. | San Sebasti�n: Nerea, 2006. | Urraca of Leon; references to Alfonso VI of Leon-Castile | queenship, female power, gender/gender roles, widow, reputation/character, political influence/participation, royal marriage, legitimacy | Medieval | Spain |
Edited Collection | Palos, Joan-Llu�s and Magdalena S. S�nchez, eds. | Early Modern Dynastic Marriages and Cultural Transfer. | Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2016. | Anne of Austria; Catherine of Aragon; Ferdinand II of Aragon; Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal; Isabel of Castile; Charles III of Spain; Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor; Charles II of Spain; Christina, Queen of Sweden; Elizabeth I of England; Henry VIII of England; Isabella of Portugal; Joao IV of Portugal; Juana of Castile; Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor; Margarita Theresa of Spain (infanta); Margaret of Austria; Maria Teresa of Austria; Mariana of Austria, Queen of Spain; Mary I of England; Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor; Philip II of Spain; Marguerite de Valois; and many others | queens, queenship, royal/dynastic marriages, dynastic politics, cultural circulation, foreign relations, diplomacy, etiquette, foods, heritage, cultural transfer, nobility/elite culture, fashion, art, smells, religion, religious policies/influence | Early Modern | Europe |
Chapter | Palos, Joan-Llu�s. | "'A Spanish Barbarian and an Enemy of Her Husband�s Homeland': The Duchess of Florence and Her Spanish Entourage." | In Early Modern Dynastic Marriages and Cultural Transfer, eds. Joan-Llu�s Palos and Magdalena S. S�nchez, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2016. | Eleonora Alvarez de Toledo; references to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor; Margaret of Austria; Christina of Denmark; and others | female power, marital relations, nobility, gendered bodies, political & court culture, dynastic politics, marriage alliances | Early Modern | Europe |
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