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A companion to global queenship /

This collection brings together case studies of premodern queenship in a truly global comparative context, highlighting the vitally important place that women occupied at the heart of the realm.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Woodacre, Elena (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Kalamazoo : Arc Humanities Press, 2018.
Edición:New edition.
Colección:Arc Companions.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Placing Queenship into a Global Context, p.1 / ELENA WOODACRE
  • Part I Perceptions of Regnant Queenship
  • Chapter 2. When the Emperor Is a Woman: The Case of Wu Zetian(624-705), the "Emulator of Heaven", p.13 / EUSABETTA COLLA
  • Chapter 3. Tamar of Georgia (1184-1213) and the Language of Female Power, p.27 / LOIS HUNEYCUTT
  • Chapter 4. Regnant Queenship and Royal Marriage between the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Nobility of Western Europe, p.39 / HAYLEY BASSETT
  • Chapter 5. Queenship and Female Authority in the Sultanate of Delhi (1206-1526), p.53 / JYOTI PHULERA
  • Chapter 6. Anna Jagiellon: A Female Political Figure in the Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, p.67 / KATARZYNA KOSIOR
  • Chapter 7. Female Rule in Imperial Russia: Is Gender a Useful Category of Historical Analysis?, p.79 / OREL BEILINSON
  • Chapter 8. The Transformation of an Island Queen: Queen Beti of Madagascar, p.95 / JANE HOOPER
  • Chapter 9. Female Rangatira in Aotearoa New Zealand, p.109 / AIDAN NORRIE
  • Part II Practising Co-Rulership
  • Chapter 10. The Social-Political Roles of the Princess in Kyivan Rus', ca. 945-1240, p.125 / TALIA ZAJAC
  • Chapter 11. Impressions of Welsh Queenship in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, p.147 / DANNA R. MESSER
  • Chapter 12. Queen Zaynab al-Nafzawiyya and the Building of a Mediterranean Empire in the Eleventh-Century Maghreb, p.159 / INES LOURINHO
  • Chapter 13. Al-Dalfa' and the Political Role of the umm al-walad in the Late Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus, p.171 / ANA MIRANDA
  • Chapter 14. The Khitan Empress Dowagers Yingtian and Chengtian in Liao China, 907-1125, p.183 / HANG LIN
  • Chapter 15. Dowager Queens and Royal Succession in Premodern Korea, p.195 / SEOKYUNG HAN
  • Chapter 16. The Ambiguities of Female Rule in Nayaka South India, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries, p.209 / LENNART BES
  • Part III Breaking Down Boundaries: Comparative Studies of Queenship
  • Chapter 17. Helena's Heirs: Two Eighth-Century Queens, p.233 / STEFANYWRAGG
  • Chapter 18. The Hohenstaufen Women and the Differences between Aragonese and Greek Queenship Models, p.245 / LLEDO RUIZ DOMINGO
  • Chapter 19. The "Honourable Ladies" of Nasrid Granada: Female Power and Agency in the Alhambra (1400-1450), p.255 / ANA ECHEVARRIA and ROSER SALICRti ILLUCH
  • Chapter 20. Comparing the French Queen Regent and the Ottoman Valide Sultan during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, p.271 / RENEE LANGLOIS
  • Chapter 21. Queens and Courtesans in Japan and Early Modern France, p.285 / TRACY ADAMS and IAN FOOKES
  • Chapter 22. The Figure of the Queen Mother in the European and African Monarchies, 1400-1800, p.299 / DIANA PELAZ FLORES
  • Index, p.309