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Royal Studies Journal, 2019 Catherine of Aragon’s support during Henry VIII’s campaign to annul their marriage relied on an affinity formed through her estates, specifically through the familial and regional connections between the queen and her local officials, tenants, and ...
Michelle Beer
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The rulership of Pippin I of Aquitaine
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 545-571, November 2025.This article uses the reign of Pippin I of Aquitaine (d. 838) as a case study for the historiographical concept of ‘sub‐rulership’ in Carolingian Francia. It unpicks how Pippin’s status varied over time, arguing that Pippin’s rulership represents well the tension between kingship as an office and as a dynastic status.
Eddie Meehan
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Weibliche Adelsherrschaft und Regentinnenschaft in der Dragon Age-Reihe
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2023 BioWare’s Dragon Age series has often been cited as an example for meieval fantasy games being inclusive of women despite their medieval worlds. This article, in contrast, argues that the kingdom of Ferelden constructed by the game is based on the idea ...
Aurelia Brandenburg
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Pelopidarum secunda: a ‘site of memory’ in the history of Elizabethan revenge tragedy
Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 394-415, June 2024.Abstract Pelopidarum secunda is an understudied anonymous English adaptation of Seneca's Agamemnon and Sophocles' Electra. The play is preserved only in manuscript and was probably performed at Winchester College around 1590. Through a combination of Marvin Carlson's notions of ‘ghosting’ and of the ‘site of memory’ with a neo‐historicist approach, the
Angelica Vedelago
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Royal Studies Journal, 2017 Review of Miguel García Fernández & Silvia Cernadas Martínez, eds., Reginae Iberia: El Poder Regio Femenino en Los Reinos Medievales Peninsulares (Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2015).
Lledo Ruiz Domingo
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La acción política, familiar y religiosa de Catalina de Lancaster
E-SpaniaThis article examines Catherine of Lancaster through the lens of queenship studies and female political power in late medieval Castile. It offers a critical assessment of recent scholarship on the queen and proposes new avenues of research concerning her
Ana Echevarria Arsuaga
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Studia OrientaliaEmpires and kingship are long-standing topics of research in ancient Near Eastern studies; the study of queenship has gradually received more attention over recent decades.
Melanie Wasmuth +13 more
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Queen Katherine Howard: Space, and Promiscuity Pre- and Post- Marriage, 1536-1541
Royal Studies Journal, 2019 The fall of Queen Katherine Howard in 1541-1542 is a well-known event: the young woman with allegedly loose morals who captured the heart of the King and then proceeded to break it by continuing to arrange sexual liaisons with another man has long ...
Nicola Clark
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Royal Studies Journal, 2016 Review of Elena Woodacre and Carey Fleiner, eds., Royal Mothers and their Ruling Children: Wielding Political Authority from Antiquity to the Early Modern Era (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015).
Julia Heinemann
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María de Castilla, reina de Aragón (1416-1458): La mediación incansable
E-Spania, 2015 Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon, acted indefatigably as mediator during her whole life, helping to bring peace and agreement between the Crowns of Castile and Aragon and the Kingdom of Navarre.
María del Carmen García Herrero
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