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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 | Reilly, Bernard. | The Kingdom of Le�n-Castilla Under Queen Urraca, 1109�1126. | Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. | Urraca of Leon; references to Eleanor of Aquitaine; Blanche of Castile; Matilda of Tuscany; Teresa of Portugal; and others | queenship, female power, political influence/participation, public acts, literary & visual representations/depictions, court culture, reputation | Medieval | Spain |
Chapter | Renoux, Annie. | "Elite Women, Palaces, and Castles in Northern France (ca. 850�1100)." | In Reassessing the Roles of Women as �Makers� of Medieval Art and Architecture, ed. Therese Martin, Leiden: Brill, 2012. | Pepin the Short; Gerberga of Saxony; Frederun (Frerone); Charles III (the Simple) of West Francia; Ogiva (Eadgifu) of Wessex; Louis IV of France; and others | kingship, queenship, consort, female power/authority, elite women, palaces/castles, royal court/household, principalities, female architects | Medieval | France |
Chapter | Rezak, Brigitte Bedos. | "Women, Seals, and Power in Medieval France, 1150-1350." | In Women and Power in the Middle Ages, eds. Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988. | UNAVAILABLE | UNAVAILABLE | Medieval | France |
Chapter | Rhorchi, Fatima. | "Consorts of Moroccan Sultans: Lalla Khnata Bint Bakkar 'A Woman With Three Kings'." | In Queenship in the Mediterranean: Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras, ed. Elena Woodacre, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. | Kenza Al-Awrabia, Zeinab Nefzawiya, Khnata Bint Bakar, Assayyida Ahourra; Moulay Idriss I; Yousef Ibn Tachfin; Moulay Ismail; Sultan Almandri; and others | female consorts, female power, political roles/participation, public visibility, exercise of power, gender roles, nature of women, wife, martial relations | Medieval/Early Modern | Mediterranean |
Monograph | Rice, Tamara Talbot. | Elizabeth: Empress of Russia. | London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970. | Elizabeth Petrovna of Russia | UNAVAILABLE | Early Modern | Russia |
Chapter | Richards, Earl Jeffrey. | "Somewhere between Destructive Glosses and Chaos: Christine de Pizan and Medieval Theology." | In Christine de Pizan: A Casebook, eds. Barbara K. Altmann and Deborah L. McGrady. London: Routledge, 2003. | Christine de Pizan | female power, religious spaces, scholastic theology, masculinity, gender roles, nature of women | Medieval | France |
Chapter | Richards, Judith M. | "Mary Tudor: Renaissance Queen of England." | 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. | Mary I of England; references to Catherine of Aragon; Henry VIII of England; and others | queenship, female power, reputation/representation, humanism, education/learning, political influence, religion/religious allegiance, rituals, female rule, legal autonomy | Early Modern | England |
Article | Richards, Judith M. | "Love and a Female Monarch: The Case of Elizabeth Tudor." | Journal of British Studies, 38:2, 1999, pp. 133-160. | Elizabeth I of England | queenship, female power, language/rhetoric, political thought/culture, court culture, propaganda, print/literary culture, allegiance | Early Modern | England |
Article | Richards, Judith M. | "Mary Tudor as 'Sole Quene'?: Gendering Tudor Monarchy." | The Historical Journal, 40:4, 1997, pp. 895-924. | Mary I of England | queenship, female power, gender/gender roles, accommodations of a female monarch, rituals, representation, constitutional theory | Early Modern | England |
Article | Richards, Judith M. | "To Promote a Woman to Beare Rule: Talking of Queens in Mid-Tudor England." | Sixteenth Century England, 28:1, 1997, pp. 101-121. | Mary I of England; references to Matilda (Maude), Holy Roman Empress; Elizabeth of York; Anne Boleyn; Margaret Beaufort; and others | queenship, female power, male-exercised authority, public discourse, literary & visual representation/depictions, gender/gender roles | Early Modern | England |
Chapter | Richards, Judith. | "Examples and Admonitions: What Mary Demonstrated for 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, reputation/persona, gender roles, representation, image, two bodies concept, precedent | Early Modern | England |
Article | Richards, Judith. | "Gender Difference and the Tudor Monarchy: The Significance of Queen Mary I." | Parergon, 21:2, 2004, pp. 27-46. | Mary I of England | queenship, female power, regnants (reigning), Salic law, reputation, gender/gender roles, literary & visual representations/depictions | Early Modern | England |
Chapter | Richardson, Glenn. | "'Your most assured sister': Elizabeth I and the Kings of France." | In Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth, eds. Alice Hunt and Anna Whitelock, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. | Elizabeth I of England; Henry IV of France; and others | queenship, foreign relations, diplomacy, correspondence, religion, rhetoric, reputation/persona, ritual | Early Modern | England/France |
Chapter | Riddy, Felicity. | "Looking Closely: Authority and Intimacy in the Late Medieval Urban Home." | 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. | N/A | gender roles, domesticity, household heads, public authority, order, guilds, public/private sphere, gendered spaces, intimacy | Medieval | Europe |
Monograph | Ridley, Jasper. | Elizabeth I: The Shrewdness of Virtue. | New York: Fromm International Publishing Corporation, 1989. | Elizabeth I of England; references to Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots; Catherine de Medici; Mary I of England; and others | queenship, female power, biography, childhood, religious policies/devotion, political & court culture, diplomacy, foreign relations | Early Modern | England |
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