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Queenship in the Mediterranean

Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras

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  1. Elena Woodacre
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  • Offers an innovative study of Mediterranean queens and their influence as wives, mothers, and political actors

Part of the book series: Queenship and Power (QAP)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Queenship in the Mediterranean

    • Elena Woodacre
    Pages 1-7

  3. Female Monarchs in the Medieval Byzantine Court: Prejudice, Disbelief, and Calumnies

    • Alexandra Karagianni
    Pages 9-25

  4. To Have and Have Not: The Dower of Joanna Plantagenet, Queen of Sicily (1177–1189)

    • Colette Bowie
    Pages 27-50

  5. The Final Testament of Violante de Aragón (c. 1236–1300/01): Agency and (dis)Empowerment of a Dowager Queen

    • Melissa R. Katz
    Pages 51-71

  6. Lost and Found: Visualizing a Medieval Queen’s Destroyed Objects

    • Mariah Proctor-Tiffany
    Pages 73-96

  7. The Political Role of a Portuguese Queen in the Late Fourteenth Century

    • Isabel de Pina Baleiras
    Pages 97-123

  8. Philippa of Lancaster: The Memory of a Model Queen

    • Ana Rodrigues Oliveira
    Pages 125-144

  9. Not Lost in Translation: Aragonese Court Culture on Tour (1400–1480)

    • Zita Rohr
    Pages 145-168

  10. Queenly Time in the Reign of Juan II of Castile (1406–1454)

    • Diana Pelaz Flores
    Pages 169-190

  11. Princess Isabel of Portugal: First Lady in a Kingdom without a Queen (1415–1428)

    • Manuela Santos Silva
    Pages 191-205

  12. Blanca, Queen of Sicily and Queen of Navarre: Connecting the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean via an Aragonese Alliance

    • Elena Woodacre
    Pages 207-227

  13. Consorts of Moroccan Sultans: Lalla Khnata Bint Bakkar “A Woman with Three Kings”

    • Fatima Rhorchi
    Pages 229-245

  14. The Sovereign and His Wife “Minister”: Charles Emmanuel IV and Marie Clotilde Adélaïde Xavière of France. Interpersonal and Political Relations between the Sovereigns of Sardinia

    • Federica Contu
    Pages 247-264

  15. Queenship and Family Dynamics through the Correspondence of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples

    • Cinzia Recca
    Pages 265-286

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 287-302
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About this book

This groundbreaking collection explores the key roles that Mediterranean queens played as wives, as mothers, and above all as political actors. Ranging from Byzantine empresses to regnants and consorts in the Italian peninsula, they offer a bracing new perspective on queenship in the medieval and Early Modern eras.

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Zita Rohr, University of Sydney, Australia Ana Rodrigues Oliviera, University of Lisbon-Nova, Portugal Manuela Santos Silva, University of Lisbon, Portugal Alexandra Karagianni, University Western Macedonia, Republic of Macedonia Isabel de Pina Baleiras, Lisbon University, Portugal Federica Contu, University of Cagliari, Italy Cinzia Recca, Catania, Italy Diana Pelaz Flores, University of Valladolid, Spain Melissa R. Katz, University of Exeter, UK Mariah Proctor-Tiffany, Rhode Island School of Design, UK Colette Bowie, University of Glasgow, UK Fatima Rhorchi, University Moulay Ismail-Meknes, Morocco

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Queenship in the Mediterranean

  • Book Subtitle: Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras

  • Editors: Elena Woodacre

  • Series Title: Queenship and Power

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137362834

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-36282-7Published: 18 December 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-47278-9Published: 18 December 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-36283-4Published: 18 December 2013

  • Series ISSN: 2730-938X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-9398

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 302

  • Topics: European History, Modern History, History of Medieval Europe, Cultural History, Social History, History of Italy

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