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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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