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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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Chapter | Paranque, Estelle. | "Queen Elizabeth I and the Elizabethan Court in the French Ambassador�s Eyes." | In Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies, ed. Anna Rielh Bertolet, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. | Elizabeth I of England; references to Charles IX of France; Catherine de Medici; Henri III of France; and others | queenship, female power, court & political culture, foreign relations/diplomacy, representations/depictions, monarchical identity, imagery, reputation | Early Modern | England |
Monograph | Parker, Derek. | Nell Gwyn. | Stroud: Sutton, 2000. | Nell Gwyn; Charles II of England; references to Catherine of Braganza; Charles I of England; and others | kingship, royal mistresses, performance/theatre, royal marriage/marital relations, sex/sexuality, reputation, adultery, public gossip, pamphlets | Early Modern | Britain |
Edited Collection | Parsons, David, ed. | Eleanor of Castile, 1290-1990. | Stamford: Paul Watkins, 1991. | Eleanor of Castile; Edward I of England | UNAVAILABLE | Medieval | England |
Chapter | Parsons, John C. | "'Never was a body buried in England with such solemnity and honour': The Burials and Posthumous Commemorations of English Queens to 1500." | 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. | Margaret of Scotland; Matilda of Scotland; Eleanor of Provence; Isabella of France; Margaret of Anjou; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Eleanor of Castile; Philippa of Hainaut; and others | queenship, female power, burials, commemorations, tombs/effigies, rituals/displays, female roles | Medieval | England |
Monograph | Parsons, John C. | Eleanor of Castile: Queen and Society in Thirteenth-Century England. | New York: St. Martin�s Press, 1995. | Eleanor of Castile; Edward I of England | queenship, female power, legacy, reputation, cultural memory, virutous womanhood, marriage alliance, diplomacy, foreign relations, imagery, literary & visual representation/depictions | Medieval | England |
Edited Collection | Parsons, John Carmi and Bonnie Wheeler, eds. | Medieval Mothering. | New York: Garland, 1996. | Eleanor of Aquitaine; Matilda (Maude), Holy Roman Empress; Matilda of Scotland; Margaret of Scotland; Berenguela of Castile/Leon; Adela of Blois; Blanche of Castile; Henry I of England; and others | queenship, female power, motherhood, childhood, political participation/leadership, marriage alliances, foreign relations, literary representations/depictions, religious devotion/status, female networks, sexuality, succession, familial bonds | Medieval | Europe |
Edited Collection | Parsons, John Carmi, ed. | Medieval Queenship. | Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1998. | Constance of Sicily, Queen of Aragon; Margaret of Beaufort; Irene of Athens, Empress of Byzantium; Margaret (Margarethe) I, Queen of Denmark/Norway/Sweden; Margaret of Pomerania; Dido of Carthage; �lfgifu; �lfthryth; Edith of England; Matilda of Scotland; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Eleanor of Castile; Eleanor of Provence; Emma of Normandy (�lfgifu); Matilda (Maude), Holy Roman Empress; Anna of Brittany; Anne of Rus (Kiev); Blanche of Castile; Catherine de Medici; Hildegarde (wife of Charlemagne); Isabeau of Bavaria; Joan of Navarre; Margaret of Provence; Melisende of Jerusalem; Jadwiga of Poland; Louise of Savoy; and many other queens and kings | queenship, female power, political & court culture, imagery/symbolism, literary representation/depictions, motherhood, royal family, marriage alliances, patronage, ritual/ceremony, concubines/mistresses, dynasty/dynastic politics, political participation/influence, religion/religious politics, saints, piety, devotion, diplomacy, foreign relations, gender roles, nature of women, succession, kingship, sovereignty, misogyny | Medieval | Europe/Mediterranean |
Chapter | Parsons, John Carmi. | "Of Queens, Courts, and Books: Reflections on the Literary Patronage of Thirteenth-Century Plantagenet Queens." | In The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women, ed. June Hall McCash. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. | UNAVAILABLE | queenship, female power, court culture, book culture, literary patronage | Medieval | Europe |
Chapter | Parsons, John Carmi. | "Introduction - Family, Sex, and Power: The Rhythms of Medieval Queenship." | In Medieval Queenship, ed. John Carmi Parsons, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1998. | Eleanor of Aquitaine; Blanche of Castile; Margaret of Anjou; Isabella of Castile; Charlemagne; Edith of England; and others | queenship, female power, female officer/office, administrative/institutional history of queenship, gender roles, political power, political & court culture, historiography, royal household/bedchamber | Medieval | Europe/Mediterranean |
Chapter | Parsons, John Carmi. | "Damned If She Didn�t and Damned When She Did: Bodies, Babies, and Bastards in the Lives of Two Queens of France." | In Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady, eds. Bonnie Wheeler and John C. Parsons, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. | Eleanor of Aquitaine; Marie Antoinette; references to Margaret of Anjou; Sanchia of Aragon | queenship, representation, mythologizing receptions, gender stereotypes, sexuality, childless, gossip, adultery, court culture, marital relations | Medieval | England/France |
Chapter | Parsons, John Carmi. | "Ritual and Symbol in the English Medieval Queenship to 1500." | In Women and Sovereignty, ed. Louise Olga Fradenburg, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992. | Eleanor of Castile; Henry III of England; Eleanor of Provence; Judith of Wessex; Edith of Wessex; and others | queenship, female power, ritual/ceremony, symbols/symbolism, political influence/participation, ritualised acts, royal entries, pageants, marriage/wedding ceremony, coronations | Medieval | England/Europe |
Chapter | Parsons, John Carmi. | "The Queen's Intercession in Thirteenth-Century England." | In The Power of the Weak: Studies on Medieval Women, eds. Jennifer Carpenter and Sally-Beth MacLean, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. | Eleanor of Aquitaine; Henry II of England; Berengaria of Navarre; Isabella of Angouleme; Henry III of England; Eleanor of Provence; Eleanor of Castile; and others | queenship, female power, wife/mother, gender roles, literary representations/depictions, intercession, political & cultural influence, social attitudes, public discourse | Medieval | England |
Chapter | Parsons, John Carmi. | "Mothers, Daughters, Marriage, Power: Some Plantagenet Evidence, 1150-1500." | In Medieval Queenship, ed. John Carmi Parsons, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1998. | Edward I of England; Constance; Margaret of Beaufort; Henry VII of England; Eleanor of Castile; and many others | queenship, female power, royal marriage/alliance, patrimony, matrimonial diplomacy, foreign relations, motherhood, mediators | Medieval | Europe/Mediterranean |
Chapter | Parsons, John Carmi. | "Piety, Power and the Reputations of Two Thirteenth-Century English Queens." | In Queens, Regents and Potentates, ed. Theresa M. Vann, Cambridge: Crampton and Sons Ltd, 1993. | Berengaria of Navarre; Richard I of England; Eleanor of Provence; Eleanor of Castile; Henry III of England; and others | queenship, female power, piety, religious devotion, patron, monastic culture, public image, spiritual duties, gender roles, ceremony, | Medieval | Europe |
Chapter | Parsons, John Carmi. | "The Pregnant Queen as Counsellor and the Medieval Construction of Motherhood." | In Medieval Mothering, eds. John Carmi Parsons and Bonnie Wheeler, New York: Garland, 1996. | Eleanor of Provence; Henry III of England; Philippa of Hainaut; Margaret of Provence; Henry VII of England; Elizabeth of York; and others | queenship, female power, motherhood, female counsel, dynasty, literary representations/depictions, pregnancy, political participation | Medieval | France/Europe |
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