Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe

by Duggan, Anne J.

• ISBN13: 9780851158815
• ISBN10: 0851158811
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-30
• Publisher: Boydell Pr

Summary

Did queens exercise real or counterfeit power? Did the promotion of the cult of the Virgin enhance or restrict their sphere of action? Is it time to revise the early feminist view of women as victims? Important papers on Emma of England, Margaret of Scotland, coronation and burial ritual, Byzantine empresses and Scandinavian queens, among others, clearly indicate that a reassessment of the role of women in the world of medieval dynastic politics is under way. Contributors: JANOS BAK, GEORGE CONKLIN, PAUL CROSSLEY, VOLKER HONEMANN, STEINAR IMSEN, LIZ JAMES, KURT-ULRICH JASCHKE, SARAH LAMBERT, JANET L. NELSON, JOHN C. PARSONS, KAREN PRATT, DION SMYTHE, PAULINE STAFFORD, MARY STROLL, VALERIE WALL, ELIZABETH WARD, DIANA WEBB.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Contributors	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
Queens and Empresses in the West
Emma: The Powers of the Queen in the Eleventh Century	p. 3
Queen Margaret of Scotland (1070-1093): Burying the Past, Enshrining the Future	p. 27
Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France, 1193-1223	p. 39
Late Medieval Scandinavian Queenship	p. 53
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
A Medieval Queen and her Stepdaughter: Agnes and Elizabeth of Hungary	p. 109
Image and Reality in the East
Goddess, Whore, Wife or Slave? Will the Real Byzantine Empress Please Stand Up?	p. 123
Behind the Mask: Empresses and Empire in Middle Byzantium	p. 141
Queen or Consort: Rulership and Politics in the Latin East, 1118-1228	p. 153
Images of Queenship
Maria Regina: Papal Symbol	p. 173
Queen and Patron	p. 205
Queens as Scapegoats in Medieval Hungary	p. 223
The Image of the Queen in Old French Literature	p. 235
Queens and Culture
The Architecture of Queenship: Royal Saints, Female Dynasties and the Spread of Gothic Architecture in Central Europe	p. 263
Early Medieval Rites of Queen-Making and the Shaping of Medieval Queenship	p. 301
'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
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