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Beschreibung
Medieval queens led richly complex lives and were highly visible women active in a man's world. Linked to kings by marriage, family, and property, queens were vital to the institution of monarchy.

In this comprehensive and accessible introduction to the study of queenship, Theresa Earenfight documents the lives and works of queens and empresses across Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages. The book:

* introduces pivotal research and sources in queenship studies, and includes exciting and innovative new archival research
* highlights four crucial moments across the full span of the Middle Ages - ca. 300, 700, 1100, and 1350 - when Christianity, education, lineage, and marriage law fundamentally altered the practice of queenship
* examines theories and practices of queenship in the context of wider issues of gender, authority, and power.

This is an invaluable and illuminating text for students, scholars and other readers interested in the role of royal women in medieval society.
Medieval queens led richly complex lives and were highly visible women active in a man's world. Linked to kings by marriage, family, and property, queens were vital to the institution of monarchy.

In this comprehensive and accessible introduction to the study of queenship, Theresa Earenfight documents the lives and works of queens and empresses across Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages. The book:

* introduces pivotal research and sources in queenship studies, and includes exciting and innovative new archival research
* highlights four crucial moments across the full span of the Middle Ages - ca. 300, 700, 1100, and 1350 - when Christianity, education, lineage, and marriage law fundamentally altered the practice of queenship
* examines theories and practices of queenship in the context of wider issues of gender, authority, and power.

This is an invaluable and illuminating text for students, scholars and other readers interested in the role of royal women in medieval society.
Über den Autor
THERESA EARENFIGHT is Professor of History at Seattle University, USA. She is author of The King's Other Body: María of Castile and the Crown of Aragon (2010) and editor of Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (2005).
Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Introduction: Not Partial, Prejudiced or Ignorant: The Study of Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe
1. Themes and Variations: Roman, Barbarian and Christian Societies in the Fashioning of Medieval Queenship, c. 300-700
2. Legitimizing the King's Wife and Bed-Companion, c. 700-1100
3. 'The Link of Conjugal Troth': Queenship as Family Practice, c. 1100-1350
4. Queenship in a Crisis of Monarchy, c. 1350-1500
5. The Transformation of Queenship from Medieval to Early Modern Europe
Notes
For Further Reading
Bibliography
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780230276468
ISBN-10: 0230276466
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Earenfight, Theresa
Hersteller: Red Globe Press
Macmillan Education
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Theresa Earenfight
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.06.2013
Gewicht: 0,468 kg
Artikel-ID: 133611210

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