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Queenship and Cross-Confessional Identity
Royal Studies JournalThis cluster focuses on the cross-confessional nature of European queenship, particularly the role which different confessional identities play in the education, marriage, childbirth, patronage, expressions of agency, legal context, and posthumous legacy of queens, both regnant and consort.
Amy Elizabeth Saunders +9 more
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Royal Studies Journal, 2023 This article argues that the Duchess of Angoulême, born Marie-Thérèse Charlotte de France, daughter of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette, took on the role of substitute queen during the reign of her uncle, King Louis XVIII.
Matthieu Mensch
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Exiles: Medieval Experiences of Isolation. [PDF]
Neophilologus, 2023 Sebo E.
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Death, power, and Queenship: funeral portraits for Queen Margaret of Austria in Italy
Los Libros de la Corte.esIn 1611, Queen Margaret of Austria of Spain died at the age of twenty-six after giving birth to her eighth child. This event triggered a series of customary rituals, funeral orations, and publications in homage to the queen throughout the Iberian world ...
Yelsy Hernández Zamora
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Demographic turnover can be a leading driver of hierarchy dynamics, and social inheritance modifies its effects. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2023 Strauss ED.
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Failed Mothers, Monster Sons. Reading Shakespeare’S Richard Iii as a Fairy Tale
Romanian Journal of English Studies, 2014 The paper looks at Shakespeare’s historical play Richard III and its fairy tale-like character given by the configuration of the main character as an arch-villain and the presence of motifs and patterns typically associated with the fairy tale genre ...
Percec Dana
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E-SpaniaPeriods of crisis and instability often bring strategies of power, agency and institutional adaptability into sharper focus. During the transition from the fourteenth to the fifteenth century, the minority of Juan II gave rise to a tense regency shared ...
Gonzalo Carrasco García
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Royal Studies Journal, 2016 Review of Zita Eva Rohr, Yolande of Aragon (1381-1442) Family and Power: The Reverse of the Tapestry (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
Derek R Whaley
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Diplomacy, family ties and divided loyalties: Joan of Navarre as a queenly diplomat
En la España MedievalThis article examines the diplomatic agency of Joan of Navarre (c. 1369-1437) as queen consort and queen dowager of England. It focuses particularly on the period between 1403 and 1419 and her role as a key pivot point between England and Brittany, as ...
Elena Woodacre
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Royal Studies Journal, 2015 Review of Jonathan Beckman, How To Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette, the Stolen Diamonds and the Scandal that Shook the French Throne (London: John Murray, 2014).
Stephanie Russo
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