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"This work looks at queenship in a global, timeless sense—examining the role of queens, empresses, and other royal women from the ancient and classical period through to nearly the present day on every continent. By looking at queenship in this comparative, longue durée way, we can start to see connecting threads and continuity over time and space as well as the change and development and comparisons of how the queen’s role differed in various cultural contexts. A wide variety of examples are given to explain and contextualize key themes in queenship: family and dynasty, rulership, and image crafting. The introduction provides a brief overview of the development of queenship studies and a discussion of the ideals that queens were expected to conform to. This book offers a radically new perspective on queenship studies which enables new insights into the queen’s role as the preeminent woman in the realm."--

Queens. --- Queens --- History. --- Female Agency. --- Gender. --- Queenship. --- Women’s History.

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A study of the performance of queenship by two Tudor monarchs, showing the strategies they used to assert their power.

Queens --- Royalty --- Rulers --- Sovereigns --- Monarchy --- Women --- Courts and courtiers --- Empresses --- Kings and rulers --- History --- Catherine, --- Margaret, --- Tudor, Margaret, --- Margaret Tudor, --- Catharine, --- Katharine, --- Catalina, --- Katherine, --- Great Britain --- Court and courtiers --- Influence. --- Civilization --- Catherine of Aragon. --- Margaret Tudor. --- Political. --- Queenship. --- Renaissance Courts. --- display. --- queenship.

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Drawing on a diverse range of documentary, literary and material evidence, the contributors to this volume examine several inter-related topics on political, social and cultural matters in late medieval England. Aspects of both arms production and armigerous society are explored, from the emergence of royal armourers in the early fourteenth century to the social implications of later armour and armorial bearings. Another major focus is the church and religion more broadly. The nature and significance of the ceremonial entry, the adventus, of bishops is explored, as well as the legal impact of provisions in shaping church-state relations in mid-century. Religious constructsof women are considered in a comparative analysis of orthodox and Lollard texts. Finally, a group of papers looks at aspects of politics at the centre, with an examination of the queenship of Isabella of France.

Reformation --- Early movements. --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- Pre-Reformation --- Christian sects, Medieval --- Church history --- Armigerous Society. --- Arms Production. --- Ceremonial Entry. --- Church-State Relations. --- Church. --- Cultural. --- Late Medieval England. --- Political. --- Queenship. --- Religion. --- Richard II. --- Social. --- History --- HISTORY / Medieval.

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Volume 3 of the first complete English translation of the chronicles of Fernão Lopes chronicles the War of Succession (1383-1385), the rise of the House of Avis under João I, and his acclamation by the Cortes in Coimbra.

Portugal --- History --- HISTORY / Medieval. --- Aljubarrota. --- Aragon. --- Avis dynasty. --- Castile. --- Coimbra. --- Cortes. --- Granada. --- João I. --- Lisboetas. --- Lisbon. --- Moors. --- Navarre. --- Oporto, providence. --- Pedro I. --- chancery. --- criado. --- diplomacy. --- fifteenth century. --- historiography. --- justice. --- kingship. --- kinship. --- maritime history. --- military history. --- queenship. --- royal itineraries. --- siege. --- treasury.

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Between the reign of Alfred in the late ninth century and the arrival of the Normans in 1066, a unique set of images of kingship and queenship was developed in Anglo-Saxon England, images of leadership that centred on books, authorship and learning rather than thrones, sword and sceptres. Focusing on the cultural and historical contexts in which these images were produced, this book explores the reasons for their development, and their meaning and function within both England and early medieval Europe. It explains how and why they differ from their Byzantine and Continental counterparts, and what they reveal about Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards history and gender, as well as the qualities that were thought to constitute a good ruler. It is argued that this series of portraits, never before studied as a corpus, creates a visual genealogy equivalent to the textual genealogies and regnal lists that are so much a feature of late Anglo-Saxon culture. As such they are an important part of the way in which the kings and queens of early medieval England created both their history and their kingdom.

CATHERINE E. KARKOV is Professor of Art History at the University of Leeds.

Books and reading --- Anglo-Saxons --- Authorship --- Portrait painting, English. --- English portrait painting --- Authoring (Authorship) --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Saxons --- History --- Kings and rulers --- Intellectual life. --- Great Britain --- Intellectual life --- Anglo-Saxon England. --- authorship. --- books. --- early medieval England. --- gender. --- good ruler. --- history. --- kings and queens. --- kingship. --- leadership. --- learning. --- queenship. --- regnal lists. --- textual genealogies. --- visual genealogy.