Queenship in Medieval Europe
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Queenship in Medieval Europe

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Queenship in Medieval Europe

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Red Globe Press
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9780230276468
eBook ISBN
9781137303929
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences
empress 
could 
not 
take 
precedence 
over 
the 
patriarch, 
having 
to 
work
through 
proxies 
in 
church 
matters. 
Empresses, 
like 
queens, 
were 
closely
tied 
to 
conversion, 
and 
religious 
patronage 
was 
one 
area 
where 
they 
had
an 
ample 
field 
of 
play. 
The 
empress, 
unlike 
her 
queenly 
counterparts, 
was
a 
link 
that 
ensured 
continuity 
between 
different 
emperors. 
This 
continu-
ity 
can 
be 
best 
seen 
in 
the 
portraiture 
of 
Byzantine 
empresses 
which
conveys 
not 
individual 
traits 
or 
personality 
but, 
rather, 
an 
iconic 
time-
lessness. 
An 
ivory 
plaque 
of 
an 
empress 
in 
full 
imperial 
regalia 
is 
charac-
teristic 
of 
the 
early 
Byzantine 
style 
(Illustration 
1.1).
18
Standing 
on 
an
Theme 
and 
Variations
41
Illustration 
1.1
Byzantine 
ivory 
diptych 
depicting 
Byzantine 
Empress 
Ariadne 
(d.
515 
C.E.). 
Kunsthistorisches 
Museum, 
Vienna, 
Austria. 
© 
Erich 
Lessing/Art 
Resource,
New 
York.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrative Material
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Not Partial, Prejudiced or Ignorant: The Study of Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe
  8. 1 Theme and Variations: Roman, Barbarian and Christian Societies in the Fashioning of Medieval Queenship, c. 300-700
  9. 2 Legitimizing the King's Wife and Bed-Companion, c. 700-1100
  10. 3 ‘The Link of Conjugal Troth': Queenship as Family Practice, c. 1100-1350
  11. 4 Queenship in a Crisis of Monarchy, c. 1350-1500
  12. 5 The Transformation of Queenship from Medieval to Early Modern Europe
  13. Notes
  14. For Further Reading
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index