Queens and queenship in medieval Europe

Titel: Queens and queenship in medieval Europe : proceedings of a conference, held at King's College, London, April 1995 / ed. by Anne J. Duggan
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Veröffentlicht: Woodbridge : Boydell Press, 1997
Umfang: XXII, 357 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 0851156576
  • List of Illustrations
  • p. vii
  • Contributors
  • p. ix
  • Abbreviations
  • p. xi
  • Preface
  • p. xiii
  • Introduction
  • p. xv
  • I.
  • Queens and Empresses in the West
  • 1
  • Emma: The Powers of the Queen in the Eleventh Century
  • p. 3
  • 2
  • Queen Margaret of Scotland (1070-1093): Burying the Past, Enshrining the Future
  • p. 27
  • 3
  • Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France, 1193-1223
  • p. 39
  • 4
  • Late Medieval Scandinavian Queenship
  • p. 53
  • 5
  • From Famous Empresses to Unspectacular Queens: The Romano-German Empire to Margaret of Brabant, Countess of Luxemburg and Queen of the Romans (d. 1311)
  • p. 75
  • 6
  • A Medieval Queen and her Stepdaughter: Agnes and Elizabeth of Hungary
  • p. 109
  • II.
  • Image and Reality in the East
  • 7
  • Goddess, Whore, Wife or Slave? Will the Real Byzantine Empress Please Stand Up?
  • p. 123
  • 8
  • Behind the Mask: Empresses and Empire in Middle Byzantium
  • p. 141
  • 9
  • Queen or Consort: Rulership and Politics in the Latin East, 1118-1228
  • p. 153
  • III.
  • Images of Queenship
  • 10
  • Maria Regina: Papal Symbol
  • p. 173
  • 11
  • Queen and Patron
  • p. 205
  • 12
  • Queens as Scapegoats in Medieval Hungary
  • p. 223
  • 13
  • The Image of the Queen in Old French Literature
  • p. 235
  • IV.
  • Queens and Culture
  • 14
  • The Architecture of Queenship: Royal Saints, Female Dynasties and the Spread of Gothic Architecture in Central Europe
  • p. 263
  • 15
  • Early Medieval Rites of Queen-Making and the Shaping of Medieval Queenship
  • p. 301
  • 16
  • 'Never was a body buried in England with such solemnity and honour': The Burials and Posthumous Commemorations of English Queens to 1500
  • p. 317
  • Index
  • p. 339