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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chapter | Wright, Rosemary Muir. | "The Virgin in the Sun and in the Tree." | In Women and Sovereignty, ed. Louise Olga Fradenburg, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992. | Virgin Mary | queenship, female power, symbolism/imagery, motherhood, religious iconography, religious queenship, religious/biblical representation/depictions | Medieval | Europe |
Chapter | Wylie, J. A. | "Jeanne D'Albret 1528-1572." | In The History of Protestantism, volume 2, book 17, ed. J.A. Wylie, London: Charles J. Thynne, 1902. | Jeanne d'Albret | UNAVAILABLE | Early Modern | France |
Monograph | Yalom, Marilyn. | Birth of the Chess Queen: A History. | New York: Perennial, 2005. | Anne of Austria; Blanche of Castile; Catherine II (the Great) of Russia; Catherine de Medici; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Elizabeth I of England; Emma of Denmark; Isabella I of Castile; Margaret of Denmark; and many others | queenship, female power, monarchy, royal pastime, political & court culture, game, chess | Medieval/Early Modern | Europe |
Chapter | Yeager, R.F. | "The Politics of Strengthe and Vois in Gower's Loathly Lady tale." | In The English �Loathly Lady� Tales: Boundaries, Traditions, Motifs, eds. Elizabeth Passmore and Susan Carter, Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007. | N/A | female power, sovereignty, dissent, social/political influences, literary representations/depictions | Medieval | Europe |
Article | Yonan, Michael E. | "Modesty and Monarchy: Rethinking Empress Maria Theresa at Schn�nbrunn." | Austrian History Yearbook, 35, 2004, pp. 25-47. | Maria Theresa | queenship, female power, political & court culture, domesticity, ceremony, palaces/architecture | Early Modern | Europe |
Article | Yonan, Michael E. | "Veneers of Authority: Chinese Lacquers in Maria Theresa�s Vienna." | Eighteenth Century Studies, 37(4), 2004, pp. 652-672 | Maria Theresa | queenship, female power, gift giving, diplomacy, foreign relations, cultural practices, art/architecture | Early Modern | Europe |
Chapter | Zanger, Abby E. | "What the King Saw in the Belly of the Beast or How the Lion Got in the Queen: Allegories of Royal Procreation in the 1622 Royal Entry into Lyon." | In The Body of the Queen: Gender and Rule in the Courtly World, 1500-2000, ed. Regina Schulte, New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. | Anne of Austria; Marie de Medicis; Louis XIII of France; and others | queenship, gendered bodies, royal entry, spectacles, ceremony/ritual, symbolism, image, representation, literary depictions | Early Modern | France |
Chapter | Zanger, Abby. | "Fashioning the Body Politic: Imagining the Queen in the Marriage of Louis XIV." | In Women and Sovereignty, ed. Louise Olga Fradenburg, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992. | Maria Teresa of Austria; Louis XIV of France | queenship, female power, political image/symbolism, royal marriage, popular culture, gendered body, fashion/clothing, symbolics of politics & sovereignty | Early Modern | France |
Article | Zanger, Abby. | "Making Sweat: Sex and the Gender of National Reproduction in the Marriage of Louis XIII." | Yale French Studies, 86, 1994, pp. 187-205. | Louis XIII of France; Anne of Austria | kingship, male body, scared persona, dynasty/dynastic politics, sovereign power, sexuality, marriage, ceremony, literary & visual representation/depictions | Early Modern | France |
Chapter | Zelensky, Elizabeth Kristofovich. | "'Sophia the Wisdom of God': The Function of Religious Imagery During the Regency of Sofia Alekseevna of Muscovy." | In Women and Sovereignty, ed. Louise Olga Fradenburg, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992. | Sofia Alekseevna of Muscovy; Peter I of Russian; Ivan V of Russian; and others | queenship, female power, religious imagery/symbolism, regent/regency, female sovereignty, political culture, monarchical legitimacy, iconography | Early Modern | Russia |
Article | Zevin, Alexander. | "Marie Antoinette and The Ghosts of the French Revolution." | Cin�aste, 32:2, 2007, pp. 32-35. | Marie Antoinette | UNAVAILABLE | Early Modern | France |
Chapter | Ziegler, Georgianna. | "Reimagining a Renaissance Queen: Catherine of Aragon Among the Victorians." | In High and Mighty Queens of Early Modern England: Realities and Representation, eds. Carole Levin, Jo Eldrige Carney and Debra Barret-Graves, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. | Catherine of Aragon; references to Queen Victoria; Henry VIII of England; Anne of Cleves; Jane Seymour; Katherine Parr; Elizabeth I of England; and others | queenship, female power, representations/depictions, personal character/public persona, political power, imagery, symbolism | Early Modern/Modern | England |
Chapter | Zim, Rivhah. | "Marveilously Given to Be Antiquaries: William Fleetwood's Itinerarium and Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst." | In The Name of a Queen: William Fleetwood's Itinerarium ad Windsor, eds. Charles Beem and Dennis Moore, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. | Elizabeth I of England; references to Mary I of England; Henry VIII of England; and others | queenship, female power, institutions of learning/social circles, magistrate/justice, political propaganda, drama/theatre | Early Modern | England |
Chapter | Zimmermann, Margarete. | "Christine de Pizan: Memory's Architect." | In Christine de Pizan: A Casebook, eds. Barbara K. Altmann and Deborah L. McGrady. London: Routledge, 2003. | Christine de Pizan, references to Charles V of France; and others | female power, cultural history, authorship, image, visual memory, concept of memorial | Medieval | France |
Article | Zirpole, Lilian H. | "Christina of Sweden's Patronage of Bernini: The Mirror of Truth Revealed by Time." | Women's Art Journal, 26:1, 2005, pp. 38-43. | Christina of Sweden | queenship, female power, patronage | Early Modern | Sweden |
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