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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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Article | Schwoerer, Lois G. | "Images of Queen Mary II, 1689-95." | Renaissance Quarterly, 42:4, 1989, pp. 717-748. | Mary II of England; references to Elizabeth I of England; William III of England/Orange; James II of England; and others | queenship, female power, co-rulership/dual monarchy, regent/regency, constitutional power, imagery, literary & visual representations/depictions, spectacles | Early Modern | England |
Article | Sch�npflug, Daniel. | "Dynastic Networks." | European History Online, Mainz: Institute of European History, 2012, pp. 1-14. | References to Henry VIII of England; Paul I of Russia; Nicholaus (Nicholas) I of Russia; George III of England; Peter I (the Great) of Russia; Maria Leszcaynski of France; and many others | kinship, dynasty, dynastic politics/networks, royal power/authority, inheritance, marriage, female succession, cultural transfer, political & court culture, diplomacy, foreign relations, noble families, geopolitical power, religion | Early Modern/Modern | Europe |
Monograph | Sebag Montefiore, Simon. | Catherine The Great and Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair. | London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007. | Catherine II (the Great) of Russia | queenship, royal marriage, co-rule, political & court culture, statecraft, diplomacy, foreign relations, governance | Modern | Russia |
Chapter | Seeberg, Stefanie. | "Women as Makers of Church Decoration: Illustrated Textiles at the Monasteries of Altenberg/Lahn, Rupertsberg, and Heiningen (13th�14th c.)." | In Reassessing the Roles of Women as �Makers� of Medieval Art and Architecture, ed. Therese Martin, Leiden: Brill, 2012. | Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor; St. Elizabeth of Hungary; Heinrich II (Henry), Holy Roman Emperor; Sophia of Thuringia; and others | female power, craftswomen, sacred art/architecture, religious decoration, textiles/embroidery, imagery, patronage, iconography, nuns/nunneries | Medieval | Europe |
Chapter | Shadis, Miriam (et al.) | "A Taste of the Feast: Reconsidering Eleanor of Aquitaine�s Female Descendants." | In Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady, eds. Bonnie Wheeler and John C. Parsons, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. | Eleanor of Aquitaine | queenship, lineage/genealogies, motherhood, political & court culture, dynasty, female power, influence/deeds | Medieval | England/France |
Chapter | Shadis, Miriam. | "Piety, Politics, and Power: The Patronage of Leonor of England and Her Daughters Berenguela of Leon and Blanche of Castile." | In The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women, ed. June Hall McCash. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. | Leonor of England; Berenguela of Leon; Blanche of Castile | queenship, female power, political culture, political participation, patronage, religious devotion/piety | Medieval | Spain/Iberia |
Chapter | Shadis, Miriam. | "The First Queens of Portugal and the Building of the Realm." | In Reassessing the Roles of Women as �Makers� of Medieval Art and Architecture, ed. Therese Martin, Leiden: Brill, 2012. | Urraca of Leon, Queen of Portugal; Teresa (Theresa) of Leon, Queen of Portugal; Afonso Henriques I of Portugal; Joao I of Portugal; Sancho I; Afonso II; Urraca of Leon; and others | queenship, female power, art/architecture, patronage, iconography, cultural influence, institution of monarchy, political influence, imagery/symbolism | Medieval | Portugal |
Chapter | Shadis, Miriam. | "Berenguela of Castile's Political Motherhood: The Management of Sexuality, Marriage, and Succession." | In Medieval Mothering, eds. John Carmi Parsons and Bonnie Wheeler, New York: Garland, 1996. | Berenguela of Castile/Leon; Alfonso VIII of Castile; Leonor of England; Elfonso IX of Leon; Blanche, Queen of England; Constanza of Aragon; and others | queenship, female power, motherhood/political motherhood, dynastic politics, royal children, succession, marriage alliances, reproduction/sexuality, political influence/participation, foreign relations, European politics | Medieval | Spain/Iberia |
Chapter | Shadis, Miriam. | "Blanche of Castile and Facinger�s 'Medieval Queenship': Reassessing the Argument." | In Capetian Women, ed. Kathleen Nolan, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. | Blanche of Castile; references to Adelaide of Maurienne; Ingeborg of Denmark; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Isabelle of Hainaut; and others | queenship, female power, material culture, ritual, political influence/participation, female authority, historiography, regent/regency, motherhood, royal office, political space | Medieval | France |
Chapter | Shadis, Miriam. | "Queenship." | In The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, Michael T. Gibbons (ed.), Malden: Wiley, 2015. | UNAVAILABLE | UNAVAILABLE | Medieval/Early Modern | Europe |
Monograph | Shadis, Miriam. | Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) and Political Women in the High Middle Ages. | New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. | Berenguela of Castile; Leonor of England; Blanche of Castile; Urraca of Portugal; Leonor of Aragon; and others | queenship, female power, familial relationships/networks, political influence/participation, religious & cultural patronage, lineage, marriage, motherhood, inheritance | Medieval | Portugal |
Monograph | Shadis, Miriam. | Learned Queen: the Imperial Images of Elizabeth I. | Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. | Elizabeth I of England | queenship, female power, education, reputation, imagery, symbolism, literary & visual representation/depictions, political & court culture | Early Modern | England |
Chapter | Shaner, Mary Edwards. | "A Jungian Approach to the Ballad 'King Henry'." | In The English �Loathly Lady� Tales: Boundaries, Traditions, Motifs, eds. Elizabeth Passmore and Susan Carter, Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007. | N/A | female power, gendered bodies, sexuality, human personality | Medieval | Europe |
Chapter | Sharpe, Jim. | "Social Strain and Social Dislocation, 1585-1603." | In The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade, ed. John Guy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. | Elizabeth I of England; references to Philip II of Spain; and others | social stability/discourse, law enforcement, crime, poverty, vagrancy, population growth, riots | Early Modern | England |
Monograph | Sharpe, Kevin. | Selling the Tudor Monarchy: Authority and Image in Sixteenth-Century England | New Haven, Yale University Press, 2009. | Henry VII of England; Henry VIII of England; Edward VI of England; Mary I of England; Elizabeth I of England | kingship, queenship, royal authority/supremacy, literary & visual representation, imagery, symbolism, propaganda, political & court culture, ceremony/rituals, spectacles | Early Modern | England |
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