All the Queen’s Men: Perceptions of Women in Power
All the Queen’s Men: Perceptions of Women in Power Burkett, Mona Master’s Thesis, University of Minnesota, (2009) Abstract Throughout the middle Ages, women…
Mother, wife, temptress, virgin and tyrant: defining images of feminine power in medieval queenship and modern politics
Mother, wife, temptress, virgin and tyrant: defining images of feminine power in medieval queenship andmodern politics Curwen, Emma B.A. Thesis, Regis University, May (2009)…
The Queen as ‘social mannequin’. Consumerism and expenditure at the Court of Isabeau of Bavaria, 1393–1422
The Queen as ‘social mannequin’. Consumerism and expenditure at the Court of Isabeau of Bavaria, 1393–1422 Gibbons, Rachel C. Journal of Medieval History, Vol. 26,…
Philippa of Lancaster, queen of Portugal (1360-1415)
Philippa of Lancaster, queen of Portugal (1360-1415) By Manuela Santos Silva The Rituals and Rhetoric of Queenship: Medieval to Early Modern, edited by…
Website Profile: On the Tudor Trail
For Natalie Grueninger, editor of On the Tudor Trail, the start of her interest in the Tudors, and Anne Boleyn in particular, started…
Joanna, Queen of Sicily
Joanna, Queen of Sicily By Dana Cushing The Plantagenet Connection, v. 8 n. 1 (Summer 2000) Introduction: In my studies of the Third…
Monastery and Monarchy: The Foundation and Patronage of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas and Santa María la Real de Sigena
Monastery and Monarchy: The Foundation and Patronage of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas and Santa María la Real de Sigena By…
Empress Agnes of Poitou (1043-1077). Reflections on the Legal Basis of Her Regency
Empress Agnes of Poitou (1043-1077). Reflections on the Legal Basis of Her Regency By Eva-Maria Butz Less Favored – More Favored: Proceedings from…
Less Favored – More Favored: Queenship and the Special Case of Margrete of Denmark, 1353-1412
Less Favored – More Favored: Queenship and the Special Case of Margrete of Denmark, 1353-1412 By Grethe Jacobsen Less Favored – More Favored:…
Queening: Chess and Women in Medieval and Renaissance France
This work explores the correlation between the game of chess and social conditions for women in both medieval and Renaissance France.
The Role of Historian in the Encomium Emmae Reginae
The Role of Historian in the Encomium Emmae Reginae By Kristen Tibbs, Marshall University Paper given at the Vagantes: Medieval Graduate Student Conference,…
Twelfth-century English queens: charters and authority
Twelfth-century English queens: charters and authority By Lida Sophia Townsley M.Phil Thesis, Trinity College, Dublin, 2010 Abstract: This thesis examines the authority of the…
A Household Book of Queen Isabella of England, 1311-1312
A Household Book of Queen Isabella of England, 1311-1312 By F. D. Blackley and G. Hermansen Historical Papers / Communications historiques, Volume 3:1 (1968)…
Deliberative Rhetoric in the Twelfth Century: Women, the Ars Dictaminis, and International Diplomatic Relations
Deliberative Rhetoric in the Twelfth Century: Women, the Ars Dictaminis, and International Diplomatic Relations By Shawn Ramsey Dissertation Prospectus, Bowling Green State University,…
Power, Courtly Love, and a Lack of Heirs: Guinevere and Medieval Queens
I examine Guinevere’s portrayals by three influential medieval writers, Chrétien de Troyes, Marie de France, and Sir Thomas Malory, compare them to historical queens, and show that although their representations of her emphasized different aspects, together they add up to a portrait of a medieval literary queen both stereotypical and human.
‘Sche is but a womman’: the queen and princess in Scotland, 1424-63
This thesis is a study of the role and power of the queen in fifteenth-century Scotland with reference to the lives of Joan Beaufort (?-1445) and Mary of Guelders (1433-1463).
Why Eastern Women Matter: The Influence of Byzantine Empresses on Western Queenship during the Middle Ages
My research proposes that the imperial women of the east had an important and discernable influence on the royal women of the west. In order to show this influence I examine the nature of western queenship by analyzing the Merovingian, Carolingian, and Ottonian dynasties.
Queen’s and Princesses’ Political Function at the end of the Middle Ages (14th and 15th Centuries)
Queen’s and Princesses’ Political Function at the end of the Middle Ages (14th and 15th Centuries) By Anne Lemonde Political Systems and Definitions of…
Women and Power in the Middle Ages: Political Aspects of Medieval Queenship
Examines the role and life of medieval queens, using examples from queens in Merovingian and Carolingian states, England, France, Castile and Aragon.
Wu Zhao: China’s Only Woman Emperor
Wu Zhao: China’s Only Woman Emperor By N. Harry Rothschild Longman, ISBN: 978-0-321-39426-2 Wu Zhao, Woman Emperor of China is the account of the…