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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 | Bennett, Judith M. | History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism. | Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. | Christine de Pizan; Hildegard of Bingen; Isabel of Castile; Joan of Arc; Margaret of Denmark; Matilda of Tuscany; Catherine de Medici; and others | female power, historical perspective, women's studies, femme sole, married women, patriarchy | Medieval/Early Modern/Modern | Global |
Chapter | Bennett, Judith M. | "Public Power and Authority in the Medieval English Countryside." | In Women and Power in the Middle Ages, eds. Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988. | UNAVAILABLE | female power, public/private spheres, gender roles, | Medieval | England |
Chapter | Bennett, Matthew. | "Virile Latins, Effeminate Greeks and Strong Women: Gender Definitions on Crusade?." | In Gendering the Crusades, eds. Susan Edington and Sarah Lambert, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2001. | Anna Commena; Maria Commena; Isabella of Jerusalem; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Matilda of England; Queen Melisende; and others. | female identity, gender roles, masculinity, literary depictions, sexuality | Medieval | Europe/Jerusalem/Eastern Mediterranean |
Monograph | Benz [St. John], Lisa. | Three Medieval Queens: Queenship and Crown in Fourteenth-century England. | Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. | Margaret of France; Isabella of France; Philippa of Hainault | female power, royal authority, royal household, motherhood, political power, royal family, land ownership | Medieval | England |
Chapter | Benz, Lisa. | "Conspiracy and Alienation: Queen Margaret of France and Piers Gaveston, the King�s Favorite." | In Queenship, Gender, and Reputation in the Medieval and Early Modern West, 1060-1600, eds. Zita Eva Rohr and Lisa Benz, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. | Margaret of France; Isabella of France; Edward II of England; Piers Gaveston; Mary of Brabant; Philip IV of France; Edward I of England; and others | queenship, female power, political culture, favourite, homosexuality, gender roles, female duties/expectations, mediator, family relations, behaviour | Medieval | England |
Chapter | Bepler, Jill. | "Posterity and the Body of the Princess in German Court Funeral Books." | In The Body of the Queen: Gender and Rule in the Courtly World, 1500-2000, ed. Regina Schulte, New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. | Anna of Saxony; Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel; Elisabeth Charlotte; Louise Henriette; Magdalena Sibylla of Saxony-Weissenfels; Sophie Charlotte; and others | female rule, succession, political & court culture, funeral spectacles, imagery, symbolism, female body | Early Modern | Germany |
Chapter | Bepler, Jill. | "Dynastic Positioning and Political Newsgathering: Hedwig Eleonora of Schleswig-Gottorf, Queen of Sweden, and her Correspondence." | In Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c.1500-1800, eds. Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly and Adam Morton, London: Routledge, 2017. | Hedwig Eleonora of Schleswig-Gottorf, Queen of Sweden | female power, kinship networks, dynastic relations, geopolitical boundaries, correspondence, political culture | Early Modern | Sweden |
Chapter | Bergeron, David M. | "The 'I' of the Beholder Thomas Churchyard and the 1578 Norwich Pageant." | 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 | female power, royal progresses, pageants, plays, literary devices, patronage, court culture, literary representation/depictions, self-fashioning | Early Modern | England |
Article | Bernard, G. W. | "The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Rejoinder." | The English Historical Review, 107:424, 1992, pp. 665-674. | Anne Boleyn | gendered perspectives, reputation, correspondence, historical interpretation, historiography | Early Modern | England |
Monograph | Bernard, G.W. | Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions. | New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. | Anne Boleyn | persona, reputation, perceptions, political culture, religion | Early Modern | England |
Monograph | Bernier, Olivier. | Imperial Mother, Royal Daughter: The Correspondence of Marie Antoinette and Maria Theresa. | London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1986. | Marie Antoinette; Maria Theresa | queenship, monarchy, divine right, diplomacy, correspondence, female power, political culture | Early Modern | France |
Monograph | Berti�re, Simone. | Les Annees sanglantes: Les Reines de France au temps des Valois. (Volume 2) | Paris: �ditions De Fallois, 1994. | Catherine de Medici; Marguerite de Valois; Elisabeth of Austria; Louise of Lorraine; and others | queenship, female power, court culture, royal authority, | Medieval/Early Modern | France |
Monograph | Berti�re, Simone. | Le Beau XIVe Siecle: Les Reines de France au temps de Valois. (Volume 1) | Paris: �ditions De Fallois, 1994. | Anne de Bretagne; Jeanne de France; Catherine de Medici; and others | queenship, female power, court culture, royal authority, | Medieval/Early Modern | France |
Chapter | Bertolet, Anna Riehl. | "The Tsar and the Queen: 'You Speak a Language that I Understand Not'." | In The Foreign Relations of Elizabeth I, ed. Charles Beem, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. | Elizabeth I of England; Ivan IV of Russia; John III of Sweden/Finland; Ottoman Sultan Murad III; and others | queenship, female power/sovereignty, gender discourse, diplomacy, foreign relations, correspondence/epistolary culture, trade, political culture/participation, visual & verbal rhetoric | Early Modern | England/Russia |
Chapter | Bertolet, Anna Riehl. | "Elizabeth I and the Heraldry of the Face." | In Elizabeth I and the 'Sovereign Arts': Essays in Literature, History, and Culture, eds. Carole Levin, Donald Stump and Linda Shenk, Tempe: The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011. | Elizabeth I of England | female rule, legitimacy, heraldry, symbolism | Early Modern | England |
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