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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 598-628, November 2023., 2023 The charter now known as Sawyer 1211 contains a detailed account of an intergenerational property dispute between Queen Eadgifu and her rival Goda, concerning the possession of two Kentish estates. Typically, the charter has either been understood as evidence of dispute settlement or to establish facts about Eadgifu that are otherwise unattested.
Jonathan Tickle
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Gender &History, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 387-407, July 2023., 2023 Abstract In 1520, two queens consort, Catherine of Aragon and Claude of France, attended the event now known as the Field of Cloth of Gold. This article analyses representations of their involvement across three sources; contemporary diplomatic correspondence and two later sources, Edward Hall's Chronicle (1548 and 1550) and the Hampton Court Palace ...
Sally Fisher
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The ‘Obstacle of Sex’. Christina of Sweden and Her Aspirations to the Polish–Lithuanian Throne
Gender &History, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 68-84, March 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT An important field of research related to early modern sovereignty is the topic of female political authority. This article aims to utilise the category of gender to analyse potential obstacles that Queen Christina of Sweden had to overcome in order to obtain royal dignity in an elective monarchy, the early modern Polish–Lithuanian ...
Dorota Gregorowicz
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‘Albion's Queen by All Admir'd’: Reassessing the Public Reputation of Queen Charlotte, 1761‐1818
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 351-370, September 2022., 2022 Abstract This article challenges contemporary and historiographical assertions about the public reputation of Queen Charlotte. Through an examination of newspaper articles and satirical prints, it traces the evolution of Charlotte's public reputation through events such as the Regency Crisis, the Regency and ultimately her death in 1818.
Natalee Garrett
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Elizabeth I, Thomas Tallis and Judith: music, resistance and the iconography of power
Renaissance Studies, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 460-476, June 2022., 2022 Abstract The use of biblical analogies hailing Elizabeth by comparing her to biblical figures has long been recognized as important for the establishment of her rule. Elizabeth was compared to the apocryphal heroine Judith throughout her reign in a positive way.
Elisabeth Charlotte Natour
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Missing Queens: Gender, Dynasty and Power in Vandal Africa
Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 3-21, March 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper reconsiders a curious aspect of the Vandal kingdom of North Africa (439–533 ce): the total absence of women called Vandals in extant sources. It argues that these missing Vandal women are the women of the Hasding royal dynasty. The non‐application of the ethnic terminology to the consorts, sisters and daughters of kings and princes ...
Robin Whelan
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Racecraft and the Indian Queen in The Temple of Love (1635)
, 2023 Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 5, Page 685-700, November 2023.
Lubaaba Al‐Azami
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Royal Studies Journal, 2019 Review of Michelle L. Beer, Queenship at the Renaissance Courts of Britain: Catherine of Aragon and Margaret Tudor, 1503–1533 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2018).
Courtney Herber
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Royal Studies Journal, 2023 This article re-examines the chronicle accounts of Philippa of Hainaut, Queen of England, being present at the Battle of Neville’s Cross through the lens of constructing ideal queenship models.
Jordan Michelle Schoonover
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Royal Studies Journal, 2017 Review of Jennifer Germann, Picturing Marie Leszczinska (1703-1768): Representing Queenship in Eighteenth-Century France (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015).
Heidi Anne Strobel
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