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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chapter | Phillips, Kim M. | "Maidenhood as the Perfect Age of Woman's Life." | In Young Medieval Women, eds. Katherine J. Lewis, No�l James Menuge and Kim M. Phillips, New York: St. Martin�s Press, 1999. | N/A | female power, saintly women, saint culture, imagery, literary & visual representations/depictions, virgin, maidenhood, female life-cycle, religious iconography/ideology, femininity, symbolism, coronations, ceremony/ritual | Medieval | Europe |
Monograph | Phillips, Phoebe. | The Medieval Queen�s Daybook: Les Tr�s Beaux Jours. | New York: Clarkson Potter, 1990. | UNAVAILABLE | UNAVAILABLE | Medieval | Europe |
Chapter | Pierce, Leslie P. | "Beyond Harem Walls: Ottoman Royal Women and the Exercise of Power." | In Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History, ed. Anne Walthall, California: University of California Press, 2008. | Suleiman the Magnificent; Kosem Sultan; Turhan Sultan; Mehmed III; Safiya Sultan; and others | female power, royal women, exercise of power, political participation/influence, harem, concubines, diplomacy, foreign relations, ceremony, patronage, legal status/regulations, dynastic politics | Early Modern | Turkey/Western Asia |
Monograph | Pierce, Leslie P. | The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. | New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. | Ayse Sultan; Beyhan Sultan; Fatma Sultan; Hanzade Sultan; Hafsa Sultan; Nurbanu Sultan; references to Elizabeth I of England; Catherine de Medici; and many others | queenship, female power/rule, gender roles, harem reproduction/motherhood, royal marriage, concubines/mistresses, literary & visual representation/depictions, imagery, political & court culture, diplomacy, foreign relations, dynasty, patronage | Early Modern/ Modern | Ottoman Empire |
Monograph | Pigaillem, Henri. | Anne de Bretagne: �pouse de Charles VIII et de Louis XII. | Paris: Pygmalion, 2008. | Anne de Bretagne (Anne of Brittany); references to Charles VIII of France; Louis XII of France; and others | queenship, female power, royal marriage, diplomatic unions/alliance, female ambassador, political influence/participation, diplomacy, foreign relations, patronage, political & court culture | Early Modern | France |
Chapter | Pohl, Walter. | "Gender and Ethnicity in the Early Middle Ages." | 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. | UNAVAILABLE | UNAVAILABLE | Medieval | Europe |
Chapter | Pollnitz, Aysha. | "Christian Women or Sovereign Queens? The Schooling of Mary and Elizabeth." | In Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth, eds. Alice Hunt and Anna Whitelock, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. | Mary I of England; Elizabeth I of England | queenship, gender roles, royal education/learning, humanism, political culture | Early Modern | England |
Monograph | Pollnitz, Aysha. | Princely Education in Early Modern Britain. | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. | Henry VIII of England; Edward VI of England; Elizabeth I of England; James I/VI of England/Scotland; and others | kingship, princes, education, humanism, chivalry, royal supremacy, godly kingship, queenship, gendered education | Early Modern | England |
Chapter | Pooley, Julian. | "A Pioneer of Renaissance Scholarship John Nichols and The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth." | In The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I, eds. Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, and Sarah Knight, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. | Elizabeth I of England | queenship, female power, political & court culture, antiquarians/antiquarian culture, political & court culture, historical scholarship, cultural nationalism, literary tradition, cultural/historical memory | Early Modern | England |
Monograph | Porter, Linda. | Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr. | London: Pan Books, 2010. | Katherine Parr; references to Henry VIII of England; Elizabeth I of England; and others | queenship, female power, religious & political influence, reputation, consort | Early Modern | England |
Article | Potter, David. | "Politics and Faction at the Court of Francis I: the Duchesse D�Etampes, Montmorency and the Dauphin Henri." | French History, 21:2, 2007, pp. 127�146. | Francis I of France | kingship, royal authority, political & court culture, power struggle, mistress, female political influence, relationship, diplomacy, dynasty | Early Modern | France |
Chapter | Poulet, Andre. | "Capetian Women and the Regency: The Genesis of Vocation." | In Medieval Queenship, ed. John Carmi Parsons, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1998. | Christine de Pizan; Isabella of Navarre; Joan of Navarre; Robert II of Scotland; Blanche of Castile; Margaret of Provence; and others | female power, regents, notions/ideas about women, gender roles, female status/identity, dynasty, royal marriage, institutional role/office, attitudes about women, subjugation of women, female royal authority, public/private spheres, domesticity | Medieval | Europe |
Chapter | Power, Daniel. | "The Stripping of a Queen: Eleanor of Aquitaine in Thirteenth- Century Norman Tradition." | 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; references to Henry II of England; Matilda (Maude), Holy Roman Empress; Richard I (the Lionheart) of England; Joanna of Sicily; Stephen of England | queenship, female power, political participation, reputation, cultural memory, literary depictions, patronage, dower rights, land inheritance | Medieval | England/France |
Chapter | Poynting, Sarah. | "'The Rare and Excellent Partes of Mr Walter Montague': Henrietta Maria and Her Playwright." | In Henrietta Maria: Piety, Politics and Patronage, ed. Erin Griffey, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2008. | Henrietta Maria; references to Louis XIII of France; Anna of Denmark; Marie de Medicis; Anne of Austria | queenship, female political power, patronage, plays/theatre, court culture, conspiracy, representation | Early Modern | England/Europe |
Monograph | Pradel, Pierre. | Anne de France, 1461�1522. | Paris: Publisud, 1986. | Anne de France (Anne of France/Anne de Beaujeu) | UNAVAILABLE | Early Modern | France |
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