Forgotten Queens in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Political Agency, Myth-Making, and Patronage
Herausgeber: Schutte, Valerie; Paranque, Estelle

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Produktbeschreibung

Forgotten Queens in Medieval and Early Modern Europe examines queens dowager and queens consort who have disappeared from history or have been deeply misunderstood in modern historical treatment. It is ideal for students and scholars of pre-modern queenship and of medieval and early modern history courses more generally.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781138085459
• ISBN-10: 1138085456
• Artikelnr.: 54432764

Autorenporträt

Valerie Schutte earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of Akron. She is author of Mary I and the Art of Book Dedications: Royal Women, Power, and Persuasion and has edited several collections on early modern kings and queens. Estelle Paranque is a Lecturer in Early Modern History at the New College of the Humanities and author of Elizabeth I of England Through Valois Eyes: Power, Representation, and Diplomacy in the Reign of the Queen (1558-1588) .

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The Power of the Mythological Past:
Reader Response to Queen Gwendolen and the Thirty-Three Daughters of King
Diocletian in English Histories; Chapter 3: Berengaria of Navarre and
Joanna of Sicily as Crusading Queens: Manipulation, Reputation, and Agency;
Chapter 4: Becoming Anglo-Norman: The Women of the House of Wessex in the
Century after the Norman Conquest; Chapter 5: Power, Patronage, and
Politics: Maria of Navarre as Queen of the Crown of Aragon (1338-1347);
Chapter 6: Beyond Patronage: Richard Jonas's The Byrth of Mankynde as
Counsel to Queen Katherine Howard; Chapter 7: Katerina Jagellonica and
Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow: Power, Piety, and Patronage; Chapter 8:
Elisabeth of Austria and Marie-Elisabeth of France: Represented and
Remembered; Chapter 9: Queen Catherine of Braganza's Relationship with her
Catholic Household in Restoration England; Chapter 10: Queenly Afterimages:
The Visual and Historical Legacy of Marie Leszczinska; Chapter 11: The
Eagle Eye of the Habsburg Family on the Kingdom of Naples: Lights and
Shadows of Queen Maria Carolina at Court