Queenship in the Mediterranean: Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras
Queenship in the Mediterranean: Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras (Queenship and Power) edited by Elena Woodacre
English | December 18, 2013 | ISBN: 1137362820 | EPUB | 312 pages | 1.5 MB
English | December 18, 2013 | ISBN: 1137362820 | EPUB | 312 pages | 1.5 MB
This groundbreaking collection explores the key roles that Mediterranean queens played as wives, as mothers, and above all as political actors. Ranging from Byzantine empresses to regnants and consorts in the Italian peninsula, they offer a bracing new perspective on queenship in the medieval and Early Modern eras.