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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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Chapter | Wilkinson, Louise J. | "Maternal Abandonment and Surrogate Caregivers: Isabella of Angouleme and Her Children by King John." | In Virtuous or Villainess? The Image of the Royal Mother from the Early Medieval to the Early Modern Era, eds. Carey Fleiner and Elena Woodacre, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. | Isabella of Angouleme; John (Lackland), King of England; references to Henry III of England; Alexander II of Scotland; Richard I of England; and others | queenship, motherhood, abandonment, royal children, marital relations, family relations/politics, political participation, female authority, exclusion, factions | Medieval | England/France |
Chapter | Wilkinson, Louise J. | "The Imperial Marriage of Isabella of England, Henry III�s Sister." | In The Rituals and Rhetoric of Queenship: Medieval to Early Modern, eds. Liz Oakley-Brown and Louise J. Wilkinson, Dublin: Four Courts, 2009. | Isabella of England; Holy Roman Empress; Henry III of England; Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor | UNAVAILABLE | Medieval | England |
Chapter | Willard, Charity Cannon. | "The Patronage of Isabel of Portugal." | In The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women, ed. June Hall McCash. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. | Isabel of Portugal | queenship, female power, patronage | Medieval | Portugal |
Edited Collection | Willard, J. P. and W. A. Morris, eds. | The English Government at Work, 1327�1336. | Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1940. | Edward III of England; Philippa of Hainault | institution of monarchy, parliament, council, royal household, regency, chancery, queenship, female household, seals, foreign relations, diplomacy, army/warfare, forest, hunting | Medieval | England |
Chapter | Williams, Deanne. | "Elizabeth I: Size Matters." | 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 Henry VIII of England, Edward VI of England; and others | queenship, magnificence, portraiture, gendered representations/imagery, symbolism, female rule/power, dialogue | Early Modern | England |
Monograph | Wilson, Alan J. | St. Margaret, Queen of Scotland. | Edinburgh: Donald, 1993. | Margaret (Saint) of Scotland | queenship, female power, biography, exile, childhood, religious piety/devotion, charity, motherhood, reputation, sainthood, marriage/marital relations | Medieval | Scotland |
Monograph | Wilson, Alan J. | Victoria: A Life. | London: Atlantic Books, 2015. | Victoria of Great Britain | queenship, female power, biography, coronation, childhood, marriage/marital relations, widowhood, motherhood, political & court culture, diplomacy, foreign relations, political authority/power | Modern | England |
Chapter | Wilson, H. Peter. | "Women and Imperial Politics: the Wurttemburg Consorts 1674-1757." | In Queenship in Europe, 1660-1815: The Role of Consort, ed. Clarissa Campbell Orr, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. | UNAVAILABLE | queenship, female power, consorts, imperialism, political culture/influence, roles for women, cultural impact | Early Modern | Europe |
Chapter | Wilson-Chevalier, Kathleen. | "Claude de France: In her Mother's Likeness, A Queen with Symbolic Clout?" | In The Cultural and Political Legacy of Anne de Bretagne: Negotiating Convention in Books and Documents, ed. Cynthia J. Brown, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2010. | Claude de France; Anne de Bretagne (Anne of Brittany); Louis XII of France | queenship, familial bonds, representation/persona, literary depictions, royal education, symbolism | Early Modern | France |
Monograph | Wittern, Susanne. | Frauen, Heiligkeit und Macht: Lateinische Frauenviten aus dem 4. bis 7. Jahrhundert. | Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1994. | UNAVAILABLE | female power, feminine holiness, religious piety/devotion, identity, wealth, patronage, reputation/legends, cult of saints | Antiquity/Medieval | Europe |
Chapter | Wogan-Brown, Jocelyn. | "Powers of Record, Powers of Example: Hagiography and Women's History." | In Gendering The Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages, eds. Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski, New York: Cornell University Press, 2003. | Elisabeth of Hungary; Isabella of Arundel; Edward the Confessor; Catherine of Alexandria; and others | female power, historical evidence, cultural & religious interests, records/manuscripts, hagiography, nunneries, female communities, saints, abbesses, literary representation/depictions | Medieval | Europe |
Chapter | Wogan-Browne, Jocely. | "Queens, Virgins and Mothers: Hagiographic Representations of the Abbess and her Powers in Twelth- and Thirteenth-Century Britain." | In Women and Sovereignty, ed. Louise Olga Fradenburg, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992. | Osith of Chich; Modwenna of Burton-on-Trent; Etheldreda of Ely; Bridget of Ireland; Edburga of Winchester; Frideswide of Oxford; and others | queenship, female power, abbess, convents, religious devotion/piety, female saints, hagiography, visual representation/depictions, female monastic culture, sovereignty, religious queens | Medieval | England/Britain |
Chapter | Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn. | "Rerouting the Dower: The Anglo-Norman Life of St. Audrey by Marie (of Chatteris?)." | In The Power of the Weak: Studies on Medieval Women, eds. Jennifer Carpenter and Sally-Beth MacLean, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. | Saint �thelthryth (Etheldreda/Audrey) | UNAVAILABLE | Medieval | England |
Chapter | Wolf, Armin. | "Reigning Queens in Medieval Europe: When, Where, and Why." | In Medieval Queenship, ed. John Carmi Parsons, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1998. | Beatrix of Portugal; Blanche of Navarre; Elisabeth of Luxembourg; Maria of Sicily; Jadwiga; Maria of Hungary; and others | queenship, female power, regnants (reigning), succession, political culture, dynastic politics | Medieval | Europe |
Edited Collection | Wolfe, Michael., ed. | Changing Identities in Early Modern France. | Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. | Charles II of France; Charles IV of France; Charles V of France; Charles VI of France; Charles VII of France; Charles VIII of France; Charles IX of France; Charlemagne; Henry II; Henry III of France; Henry IV of France; Henry VIII of England; Fredegune; Francis I of France; Ferdinand of Aragon; Elizabeth I of England; Edward III of England; Edward IV of England; Claude of France; Clovis; Clotilda; Catherine de Medici; Marguerite d' Angouleme; Jeanne d' Albret, Queen of Navarre; Marie de Medicis; Isabella of Castile; Isabelle of Bavaria; Isabelle of France; Christine de Pizan; Joan of Arc; Anne de Bourbon; Mary of Burgundy; and others | monarchy, identities, political & court culture, religious politics, war, government, counsel, histories/chronicles, dynastic relations | Early Modern | France |
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