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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 | Smith, Hannah. | Georgian Monarchy: Politics and Culture, 1714-1760. | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. | George I of Great Britain; George II of Great Britain; Caroline of Ansbach; Sophia Dorothea of Celle | kingship, queenship, institution of monarchy, dynasty, political & court culture, loyalism, ceremony, royal spectacle, self fashioning, literary & visual representation/depictions | Early modern/ modern | Britain |
Monograph | Smith, Susan L. | The Power of Women: A Topos in Medieval Art and Literature. | Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. | UNAVAILABLE | female power, female saints, gender/gender roles, women's bodies, literary & visual representations/depictions, chivalry, imagery, marriage | Medieval | Europe |
Chapter | Smuts, Malcolm. | "Religion, European Politics and Henrietta Maria's Circle, 1625-41." | In Henrietta Maria: Piety, Politics and Patronage, ed. Erin Griffey, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2008. | Henrietta Maria | queenship, political & court culture, religious politics, image, symbolism, heroine | Early Modern | England/Europe |
Chapter | Smuts, Malcom. | "Public Ceremony and Royal Charisma: The English Royal Entry in London, 1485-1642." | In The First Modern Society: Essay in English History in Honour of Lawrence Stone, eds. A.L. Beier, David Cannadine and James M. Rosenheim, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. | Elizabeth I of England; Charles I of England; Henry V of England; Mary I of England; and other | kingship, queenship, institution of monarchy, rituals, ceremony, behaviour, symbolism/imagery, literary & visual representations/depictions, masques, portraits, royal entries | Early Modern | England |
Chapter | Smythe, Dion. | "Behind the Mask: Empresses and Empire in Middle Byzantium." | 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. | Zoe; Constantine VIII; Basil II; Eudokia; Romanos III; Theodora; and others | queenship, female power, empire, imperial politics, representation/depictions, religious imagery, female honour, female joint-rulers | Medieval | Europe/Mediterranean/Byzantium |
Chapter | Snaet, Joris. | "Isabel Clara Eugenia and the Capuchin Monastery at Tervuren." | In Isabel Clara Eugenia: Female Sovereignty in the Courts of Madrid and Brussels, ed. Cordula van Wyhe, London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2011. | Isabel Clara Eugenia | UNAVAILABLE | Early Modern | Europe |
Edited Collection | So, Francis K.H. ed. | Perceiving Power in Early Modern Europe. | New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. | Charles I of England; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Matilda (Maude); Matilda of Boulogne; George III; Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor; Henry VI of England; Henry VIII of England; James I/VI of England/Scotland; Charles II of England; Margaret of Anjou; Henrietta Maria; Marie de Medici; Elizabeth I of England; and others | queenship, kingship, female power/authority, literary representations/depictions, patronage, political & court culture, political leadership/participation, foreign relations, religion, religious politics/devotion, gender roles, legal status, dual bodies concept, | Medieval/Early Modern | Europe |
Article | Sole, Gloria. | "La Mujer en la Edad Media: Una Approximacion Historigrafica." | Anuario Filos�fico, 26, 1993, pp. 653-670. | UNAVAILABLE | UNAVAILABLE | Medieval | Europe |
Monograph | Solnon, Jean-Francois. | Les Couples Royeaux Dans L'Histoire: Le pouvoir � quatre mains. | Paris: Perrin, 2012. | Justin I, East Holy Roman Emperor; Theodora; Nicholas II of Russia; Alix of Hesse; Isabella I of Castile; Ferdinand of Aragon; Louis XIII of France; Anne of Austria; Louis XVI; Marie Antoinette; and many others | kingship, queenship, consort, co-rule, governance, political influence/participation, political & court culture, royal couples, marriage | Medieval/Early Modern/Modern | Global |
Monograph | Sommerville, Margaret R. | Sex and Subjugation: Attitudes to Women in Early-Modern Society. | London: Arnold, 1995. | UNAVAILABLE | UNAVAILABLE | Early Modern | Europe |
Encyclopedia | Sova, Dawn B. | The Encyclopedia of Mistresses. | London: Robson, 1993. | UNAVAILABLE | UNAVAILABLE | UNAVAILABLE | UNAVAILABLE |
Chapter | Spangler, Jonathan. | "Expected, then Passed Over: Second Sons in the French Monarchy of the Seventeenth Century." | In Unexpected Heirs in Early Modern Europe: Potential Kings and Queens, ed. Valerie Schutte, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. | Louis XIII of France; Anne of Austria; Louis XIV of France; and others | kingship, unexpected heirs, succession, political & court culture, family relations, patronage, sovereignty, absolute monarchy, princely authority, dynasty, dynastic politics/crisis | Early Modern | France |
Chapter | Spellman, W.M. | "Queen Mary II: Image and Substance During the Glorious Revolution." | In Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women, eds. Carole Levin and Patrica A. Sullivan, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. | Mary II of England | queenship, female power, imagery, reputation, influence, literary & visual representation/depictions, revolution, gender/gender roles, attitudes about women | Early Modern | England |
Chapter | Spiller, Ben. | "Warlike Mates? Queen Elizabeth, and Joan La Pucelle in 1 Henry VI." | In Goddesses and Queens: The Iconography of Elizabeth I, eds. Annaliese Connolly and Lisa Hopkins, Manchester University Press, 2007. | Elizabeth I of England; references to Joan of Arc, Boudicca | queenship, female power, martial representation, plays/literary depictions, national identity, reputation, political & religious culture | Early Modern | England |
Chapter | Stafford, Pauline. | "Emma: The Powers of the Queen in the Eleventh Century." | 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. | Emma (�lfgifu); references to Cnut; �thelred; and others | queenship, female power, representation/depictions, imagery, political importance/influence, political culture, gender roles | Medieval | Europe |
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