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Royal Studies Journal, 2018 Review of Massimiliano Vitiello, Amalasuintha: The Transformation of Queenship in the Post-Roman World (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).
Anthony Smart
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An “Authorized Fiction”: Towards a Biography of Anonymous 756
Royal Studies Journal, 2021 This article offers a theoretical biography of Anonymous 756, the wife of King Eardwulf of Northumbria. Historians working on women in the pre-Conquest period have noted their relative absence in sources, and evidence for queens can be scant or spurious.
Stefany Wragg
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Royal Studies Journal, 2019 Review of Retha M. Warnicke, Elizabeth of York and her Six Daughters-in-Law: Fashioning Tudor Queenship, 1485–1547 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
Nicola Clark
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Introduction: premodern queenship and diplomacy
Women's History Review, 2020 Queens, be they consorts, dowagers or regents, often played pivotal roles in the lives of medieval and early modern kingdoms. As women who often married across geographical, political and, sometimes, religious borders, they were ideally placed to serve as diplomats and ambassadors, whether directly as agents or indirectly as transmitters of cultural ...
Louise Wilkinson, Sara J. Wolfson
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History, Volume 105, Issue 367, Page 673-690, October 2020., 2020 Abstract In July 1220, the boy king Henry III attended the Translation of St Thomas Becket at Canterbury, whereby the saint's body was transferred from its original tomb in the crypt of Canterbury cathedral to a splendid new shrine in the main body of the church.
Louise J. Wilkinson
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The Dates of Birth of Henry VIII’s English Wives
Royal Studies Journal, 2021 Despite holding an enduring place in the modern cultural imagination, the six wives of Henry VIII (r. 1509–1547) remain, in some respects, shadowy figures. This is especially true with regards to their births and childhoods.
Conor Byrne
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Gli spazi di corte della signoria di Isabella di Castiglia in Sicilia (1470-1504)
Studia Historica. Historia Medieval, 2021 Isabella di Castiglia ricevette pro Camera delle città della Sicilia orientale, su cui ostentò la piena giurisdizione. Questi territori, mai visitati dalla loro signora, furono sede di una complessa macchina istituzionale e amministrativa che si impiantò
Martina Del Popolo
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History, EarlyView.Abstract On 2 June 1442, Alfonso V of Aragon seized the throne of Naples after twenty years of violence, rivalry and warfare between the houses of Anjou and Trastámara over control of the Italian Regno. Over the span of his sixteen‐year reign, Alfonso used Naples as a tool to build his reputation as a new Roman and Imperial ruler in the Italian south ...
Jessica L. Minieri
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Royal Studies Journal, 2016 The article questions the image that has emerged in secondary sources of Anna Yaroslavna (r. 1050- c. 1075), the Rus-born wife of King Henri I of France (d. 1060), as an “alien queen” who remained a foreigner in Capetian society.
Talia Zajac
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 309-341, September 2026.Abstract The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion ...
Sarah A. Bendall
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