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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Edited Collection | Weissberger, Barbara F., ed. | Queen Isabel I of Castile: Power, Patronage, Persona. | Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2008. | Isabel I of Castile; Fernando of Aragon; Isabel of Aragon; Isabel of Portugal; Enrique (Henry) IV of Castile; Juan II of Aragon; Juan II of Castile; Juana I of Castile; Juana of Castile (half-sister); Margaret of Austria; and others | queenship, female power, kingship, co-rule, sovereignty, music/music books, visual & literary representation/depictions, architecture, gender, spectacles/festivities, ceremony, rituals, religious conflict/culture, political & court culture, military campaigns/warfare, reconquest, conversion, cultural influences/exchange, reputation/person, patronage | Medieval/Early Modern | Europe |
Article | Weissmann, Gerald. | "Queen Anne�s Lupus: Phospholipids and the Course of the Empire." | The FASEB Journal, 28:4, 2014, pp. 1527�1530. | Anne Stuart, Queen of Great Britain | queenship, female power, political policies, statecraft, illness/disease, heir | Early Modern | Great Britain |
Chapter | Wellman, Kathleen. | "Louise of Savoy: The Mixed Legacy of a Powerful Mother." | In Royal Mothers and Their Ruling Children: Wielding Political Authority From Antiquity to the Early Modern Era, eds. Elena Woodacre and Carey Fleiner, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. | Louise of Savoy | queenship, female power, royal children, familial bonds, political & court culture, political authority/influence, diplomacy, foreign relations | Early Modern | France |
Monograph | Wellman, Kathleen. | Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France. | New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. | Anne of Brittany; Catherine de Medici; Marguerite de Valois; Diane de Poitiers; and others | queenship, female power, marriage/marital relations, mistresses, political & court culture, political authority/influence, literary & visual representations/depictions | Early Modern | France |
Chapter | Wells, M. | "The Queen Iceni Seeks Andraste." | In Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens, eds. Carole Levin and Christine Stewart-Nunez, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. | Boudicca | poem, female power, goddess, representations, martial persona | Ancient | England/Britain |
Chapter | Welzel, Barbara. | "Widowhood: Margaret of York and Margaret of Austria." | In Women of Distinction: Margaret of York and Margaret of Austria, eds. Dagmar Eichberger and Yvonne Bleyerveld. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005. | Margaret of York; Margaret of Austria | female power, representation, widowhood | Medieval/Early Modern | Europe |
Monograph | Wemple, Suzanne F. | Women in Frankish Society: Marriage and the Cloister, 500�900. | Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. | Balthild; Bertegund; Fredegund; Hildegard; Judith of Bavaria; Liutgard; Theutberga: and many others | female power, marriage, betrothal, divorce, inheritance, widows, monasticism, religious piety/devotion | Medieval | Europe |
Chapter | Wenzel, Horst. | "How Two Ladies Steal a Crown: The Memoirs of Helene Kottannerin (1439�40) at the Court of Queen Elisabeth of Hungary (1409�42)." | In The Body of the Queen: Gender and Rule in the Courtly World, 1500-2000, ed. Regina Schulte, New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. | Elisabeth of Hungary; Helene Kottannerin; Albrecht V of Austria (Albrecht II of Germany) | female power, political culture/manoeuvring, female chronicle writer, royal household/service, dynastic marriage, court culture, representation | Medieval | Hungary/Germany |
Monograph | Whaley, Joachim. | Germany and the Holy Roman Empire, Volume I: Maximilian I to the Peace of Westphalia, 1493-1648. | Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. | Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor; Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor; Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor; Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor; and others | kingship, dynasty, royal authority, political power, statecraft, religious reform/Reformation, political & court culture, territories, humanism, governance, diplomacy, foreign relations | Early Modern | Europe |
Edited Collection | Wheeler, Bonnie and John C. Parsons, eds. | Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady. | New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. | Eleanor of Aquitaine | queenship, female power, motherhood, marital relations, political participation, literary depictions, reputation, court culture, patronage, gender roles, nature of women, divorce, law, adultery/scandal, familial bonds | Medieval | England/France |
Monograph | Whitaker, Katie. | A Royal Passion: The Turbulent Marriage of Charles I and Henrietta Maria. | London: Phoenix, 1988. | Charles I of England; Henrietta Maria | queenship, kingship, royal marriage, political marriage, religious conflict/influence, civil war, marital relations | Early Modern | England |
Chapter | White, Michelle A. | "'She is the man, and Raignes': Popular Representations of Henrietta Maria during the English Civil Wars." | In Queens & Power in Medieval and Early Modern England, eds. Carole Levin and Robert Bucholz, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. | Henrietta Maria | queenship, female power, popular representations, print culture, texts/pamphlets, gender roles, effective leadership | Early Modern | England |
Chapter | Whitelock, Anna. | "A queen, and by the same title, a king also: Mary I: Queen-in-Parliament." | In The Birth of a Queen: Essays on the Quincentenary of Mary I, eds. Sarah Duncan and Valerie Schutte, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. | Mary I of England; references to Henry VIII of England; Edward VI of England; Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor; Philip II of Spain; and others | queenship/kingship, female power/rule, parliament, government, coronation, ceremony, royal marriage, treaty, political influence/participation | Early Modern | England |
Chapter | Whitelock, Anna. | "The Queen's Two Bodies: The Image and Reality of the Body of Elizabeth I." | In The Image and Perceptions of Monarchy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, eds. Sean Mcglynn and Elena Woodacre, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. | Elizabeth I of England; references to Philip II of Spain; Anne Boleyn; Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots; Henry VIII of England; Margaret Tudor; and others | queenship, female rule, gender roles, dual body concept, imagery/symbolism, ritual/ceremony, gendered body, nature of women, drama | Early Modern | England |
Chapter | Whitelock, Anna. | "'Woman, Warrior, Queen?' Rethinking Mary and 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, female rule, gender roles, martial identity/military leadership, representation, image | Early Modern | England |
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