Queenship In Medieval France 1300 1500

Author : Murielle Gaude-Ferragu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349930289

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Queenship in Medieval France, 1300-1500 by Murielle Gaude-Ferragu Pdf

This book examines the power held by the French medieval queens during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and their larger roles within the kingdom at a time when women were excluded from succession to the throne. Well before Catherine and Marie de’ Medici, the last medieval French queens played an essential role in the monarchy, not only because they bore the weight of their dynasty’s destiny but also because they embodied royal majesty alongside their husbands. Since women were excluded from the French crown in 1316, they were only deemed as “queen consorts.” Far from being confined solely to the private sphere, however, these queens participated in the communication of power and contributed to the proper functioning of “court society.” From Isabeau of Bavaria and her political influence during her husband’s intermittent absences to Anne of Brittany’s reign, this book sheds light on the meaning and complexity of the office of queen and ultimately the female history of power.

Author : Theresa Earenfight
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137303929

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Queenship in Medieval Europe by Theresa Earenfight Pdf

Medieval queens led richly complex lives and were highly visible women active in a man's world. Linked to kings by marriage, family, and property, queens were vital to the institution of monarchy. In this comprehensive and accessible introduction to the study of queenship, Theresa Earenfight documents the lives and works of queens and empresses across Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages. The book: - Introduces pivotal research and sources in queenship studies, and includes exciting and innovative new archival research - Highlights four crucial moments across the full span of the Middle Ages – ca. 300, 700, 1100, and 1350 – when Christianity, education, lineage, and marriage law fundamentally altered the practice of queenship - Examines theories and practices of queenship in the context of wider issues of gender, authority, and power. This is an invaluable and illuminating text for students, scholars and other readers interested in the role of royal women in medieval society.

Author : Anne Duggan
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0851158811

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Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe by Anne Duggan Pdf

The image, status and function of queens and empresses, regnant and consort, in kingdoms stretching from England to Jerusalem in the European middle ages. Did queens exercise real or counterfeit power? Did the promotion of the cult of the Virgin enhance or restrict their sphere of action? Is it time to revise the early feminist view of women as victims? Important papers on Emma of England, Margaret of Scotland, coronation and burial ritual, Byzantine empresses and Scandinavian queens, among others, clearly indicate that a reassessment of the role of women in the world of medieval dynastic politics is under way. Contributors: JANOS BAK, GEORGE CONKLIN, PAUL CROSSLEY, VOLKER HONEMANN, STEINAR IMSEN, LIZ JAMES, KURT-ULRICH JASCHKE, SARAH LAMBERT, JANET L. NELSON, JOHN C. PARSONS, KAREN PRATT, DION SMYTHE, PAULINE STAFFORD, MARY STROLL, VALERIE WALL, ELIZABETH WARD, DIANA WEBB.

Author : John Carmi Parsons
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002452131

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Medieval Queenship by John Carmi Parsons Pdf

Author : Marguerite Keane
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004318830

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Material Culture and Queenship in 14th-century France by Marguerite Keane Pdf

In Material Culture and Queenship in 14th-century France Marguerite Keane analyzes the artistic and devotional context of the household of a medieval queen, Blanche of Navarre (1331-1398), as revealed through the evidence of her testaments of 1396 and 1398.

Author : Lisa Benz St. John
Publisher : Springer
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137094322

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Three Medieval Queens by Lisa Benz St. John Pdf

This book is an innovative study offering the first examination of how three fourteenth-century English queens, Margaret of France, Isabella of France, and Philippa of Hainault, exercised power and authority. It frames its analysis around four major themes: gender; status; the concept of the crown; and power and authority.

Author : Anne Duggan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Europe
ISBN : OCLC:1311034654

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Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe by Anne Duggan Pdf

Author : Caroline Dunn,Elizabeth Carney
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319758770

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Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty by Caroline Dunn,Elizabeth Carney Pdf

Royal women did much more to wield power besides marrying the king and producing the heir. Subverting the dichotomies of public/private and formal/informal that gender public authority as male and informal authority as female, this book examines royal women as agents of influence. With an expansive chronological and geographic scope—from ancient to early modern and covering Egypt, Great Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and Asia Minor—these essays trace patterns of influence often disguised by narrower studies of government studies and officials. Contributors highlight the theme of dynastic loyalty by focusing on the roles and actions of individual royal women, examining patterns within dynasties, and considering what factors generated loyalty and disloyalty to a dynasty or individual ruler. Contributors show that whether serving as the font of dynastic authority or playing informal roles of child-bearer, patron, or religious promoter, royal women have been central to the issue of dynastic loyalty throughout the ancient, medieval, and modern eras.

Author : David Andress
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003823988

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The Routledge Handbook of French History by David Andress Pdf

Aimed firmly at the student reader, this handbook offers an overview of the full range of the history of France, from the origins of the concept of post-Roman "Francia," through the emergence of a consolidated French monarchy and the development of both nation-state and global empire into the modern era, forward to the current complexities of a modern republic integrated into the European Union and struggling with the global legacies of its past. Short, incisive contributions by a wide range of expert scholars offer both a spine of chronological overviews and a diverse spectrum of up-to-date insights into areas of key interest to historians today. From the ravages of the Vikings to the role of gastronomy in the definition of French culture, from Caribbean slavery to the place of Algerians in present-day France, from the role of French queens in medieval diplomacy to the youth-culture explosion of the 1960s and the explosions of France’s nuclear weapons program, this handbook provides accessible summaries and selected further reading to explore any and all of these issues further, in the classroom and beyond.

Author : J. L. Laynesmith
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191530036

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The Last Medieval Queens by J. L. Laynesmith Pdf

The last medieval queens of England were Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne Neville, and Elizabeth of York - four very different women whose lives and queenship were dominated by the Wars of the Roses. This book is not a traditional biography but a thematic study of the ideology and practice of queenship. It examines the motivations behind the choice of the first English-born queens, the multi-faceted rituals of coronation, childbirth, and funeral, the divided loyalties between family and king, and the significance of a position at the heart of the English power structure that could only be filled by a woman. It sheds new light on the queens' struggles to defend their children's rights to the throne, and argues that ideologically and politically a queen was integral to the proper exercise of mature kingship in this period.

Author : Aidan Norrie,Carolyn Harris,J.L. Laynesmith,Danna R. Messer,Elena Woodacre
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030948863

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Later Plantagenet and the Wars of the Roses Consorts by Aidan Norrie,Carolyn Harris,J.L. Laynesmith,Danna R. Messer,Elena Woodacre Pdf

This book examines the lives and tenures of the consorts of the Plantagenet dynasty during the later Middle Ages, encompassing two major conflicts—the Hundred Years’ War and the Wars of the Roses. The figures in this volume include well-known consorts such as the “She Wolves” Isabella of France and Margaret of Anjou, as well as queens who are often overlooked, such as Philippa of Hainault and Joan of Navarre. These innovative and authoritative biographies bring a fresh approach to the consorts of this period—challenging negative perceptions created by complex political circumstances and the narrow expectations of later writers, and demonstrating the breadth of possibilities in later medieval queenship. Their conclusions shed fresh light on both the politics of the day and the wider position of women in this age. This volume and its companions reveal the changing nature of English consortship from the Norman Conquest to today.

Author : Zita Eva Rohr,Jonathan W. Spangler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000423044

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Significant Others by Zita Eva Rohr,Jonathan W. Spangler Pdf

Significant Others explores the transformative possibilities of alterity or otherness and offers concrete case studies that provide a greater understanding and nuance with regard to aspects of deviance and difference in premodern court cultures. Both public and nominally private spaces were subject to the important influence of significant others, such as women, ethno-religious minorities, and marginalized and/or difficult-to-categorize men. From their positions within and ties to court cultures, these diverse outsiders - ‘others’ - played crucial roles in maintaining a fluidity essential for the successful sustaining of territorial monarchies and polities, challenging our understanding of the more narrowly defined elite behaviours that shaped premodern dynasties, rulers, societies, and cultures of the past. By exploring a variety of case studies from history and literature, such as Moroccan Jews as dhimmis (‘protected persons’), to bastards, mistresses, and sodomites in ancien régime France, to the transformative role of magic in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, this volume makes use of empirical and contextually informed research to respond to theoretical questions posed by recent historiography. With a cross-disciplinary approach, this collection of essays will be a valuable resource for all students and scholars interested in the diverse aspects and contexts of premodern ‘others’.

Author : Elena Woodacre,Lucinda H.S. Dean,Chris Jones,Zita Rohr,Russell Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1093 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351787307

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The Routledge History of Monarchy by Elena Woodacre,Lucinda H.S. Dean,Chris Jones,Zita Rohr,Russell Martin Pdf

The Routledge History of Monarchy draws together current research across the field of royal studies, providing a rich understanding of the history of monarchy from a variety of geographical, cultural and temporal contexts. Divided into four parts, this book presents a wide range of case studies relating to different aspects of monarchy throughout a variety of times and places, and uses these case studies to highlight different perspectives of monarchy and enhance understanding of rulership and sovereignty in terms of both concept and practice. Including case studies chosen by specialists in a diverse array of subjects, such as history, art, literature, and gender studies, it offers an extensive global and interdisciplinary approach to the history of monarchy, providing a thorough insight into the workings of monarchies within Europe and beyond, and comparing different cultural concepts of monarchy within a variety of frameworks, including social and religious contexts. Opening up the discussion of important questions surrounding fundamental issues of monarchy and rulership, The Routledge History of Monarchy is the ideal book for students and academics of royal studies, monarchy, or political history.

Author : Anna Kalinowska,Jonathan Spangler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350152205

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Power and Ceremony in European History by Anna Kalinowska,Jonathan Spangler Pdf

From oaths and hand-kissing to coronations and baptisms, Power and Ceremony in European History considers the governing practices, courtly rituals, and expressions of power prevalent in Europe and the Ottoman Empire from the medieval age to the modern era. Bringing together political and art historical approaches to the study of power, this book reveals how ceremonies and rituals - far from simply being ostentatious displays of wealth - served as a primary means of communication between different participants in political and courtly life. It explores how ceremonial culture changed over time and in different regions to provide readers with a nuanced comparative understanding of rituals and ceremonies since the middle ages, showing how such performances were integral to the evolution of the state in Europe. This collection of essays is of immense value to both historians and art historians interested in representations of power and the political culture of Europe from 1450 onwards.

Author : Robert Bartlett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108490672

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Blood Royal by Robert Bartlett Pdf

An engaging history of royal and imperial families and dynastic power, enriched by a body of surprising and memorable source material.