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Royal Women of Judea

2004
Abstract bibliography: Ross S. Kraemer, “Typical and Atypical Jewish Family Dynamics: The Cases of Babatha and Berenice,” in Carolyn Osiek and David Balch, eds., Early Christian Families in Context (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2002), 114–39; Ross S.
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Royal Women in Lombard Italy: Gender and Royal Power

Medieval People: Social Bonds, Kinship, and Networks, 2022
An analysis of Lombard royal authority shows that women played an important role in forwarding royal families’ strategies of authority, despite an increasing and explicit exclusion from political power in the mid-seventh century, along with changing conceptions of Lombard ethnicity. Thus, this paper analyzes the gendered construction of ethnic identity
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The Royal Women of Buganda

The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 1990
"Women were looked down upon and in many respects were completely segregated. They were not permitted to touch things that the men were doing."1 Thus Sir Apolo Kaggwa (chief minister or katikkiro of Buganda from 1890 to 1926) described the position of women in the authoritarian, strongly hierarchical, and most definitely patriarchal Buganda kingdom ...
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Ptolemaic royal women

2020
According to the authors of this study, three elements are fundamental to analyze the political status of the Ptolemaic queens, from Berenice I to Cleopatra II (300-115 BCE): the dynastic cult and the representation of kings and queens in Egyptian temples; the enhancement of the couple in the dynastic propaganda; the establishment of the system of ...
Anne Bielman Sánchez, Giuseppina Lenzo
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Royal and Aristocratic Women

2013
Olafs saga helga, the middle part of the compilation of kings’ sagas known as Heimskringla, contains an episode commonly referred to as Fridgerdarsaga, relating a dispute between the kings Olafr Haraldsson of Norway and Olafr saenski “the Swede” Eirίksson of Sweden; this episode has been described by Lars Lonnroth as a narrative that “centers upon some
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Titles for Royal Women

1996
Abstract Monarchic rule by the Achaemenids was supported by an organized political structure, manifested by advisers and officials immediately surrounding the king at the court and by the organization of the empire through satraps. The reliefs displaying royal audience scenes at Persepolis or the relief above Darius’ tomb at NaqS-i ...
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Epilogue: The Power of Royal Women?

2018
In the epilogue, Jestice pulls together the book’s argument that the women of the Ottonian dynasty were consciously endowed with the means to be effective sharers in the work of rule. Their prestige—both in terms of material wealth and symbolic authority—made them valuable tools of government under ordinary circumstances and preservers of Ottonian rule
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