Télécharger le livre :  The Roman Empress Ulpia Severina

Of the twelve Augustae who lived during the fifty years of the so-called “military anarchy” (235-284 A.D.), Ulpia Severina, wife of the “Illyrian” emperor Aurelian (270-275 AD), is certainly one of the most enigmatic and less known. The book focuses on Ulpia...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-06-15
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Norman to Early Plantagenet Consorts

This book examines the emergence of the queen consort in medieval England, beginning with the pre-Conquest era and ending with death of Margaret of France, second wife of Edward I, in 1307. Though many of the figures in this volumes are well known, such as Eleanor of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-05-16
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Resilience and Recovery at Royal Courts, 1200–1840

This book demonstrates the evolution of resilience and recovery as a concept by applying it to a new context, that of courts and monarchies. These were remarkably resilient institutions, with a strength and malleability that allowed them to ‘bounce back’ time and again....
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-03-20
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Later Plantagenet and the Wars of the Roses Consorts

This book examines the lives and tenures of the consorts of the Plantagenet dynasty during the later Middle Ages, encompassing two major conflicts—the Hundred Years’ War and the Wars of the Roses. The figures in this volume include well-known consorts such as the “She...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-03-03
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Hanoverian to Windsor Consorts

This book examines the lives and tenures of the consorts of the Hanoverian, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Windsor monarchs from 1727 to the present. Some of the consorts examined in this volume—such as Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, consort to George VI—are well known...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-02-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Tudor and Stuart Consorts

This book examines the lives and tenures of all the consorts of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs of England between 1485 and 1714, as well as the wives of the two Lords Protector during the Commonwealth. The figures in Tudor and Stuart Consorts are both incredibly...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-07-20
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Writing Mary I

This book—along with its companion volume Mary I in Writing: Letters, Literature, and Representations—centers on representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of writing that queen into literature and other textual sources. It spans an...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-05-06
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Mary I in Writing

This book—along with its companion volume Writing Mary I: History, Historiography, and Fiction—centers on representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of writing that queen into literature and other textual sources. It spans an equally...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-04-25
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Memorialising Premodern Monarchs

This book examines the legacies and depictions of monarchs in an international context, focusing on both self-representation and commemoration by others. Spanning ancient India through to eighteenth-century Russia, this volume offers several case studies to demonstrate...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-11-22
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Representing the Life and Legacy of Renée de France

This book considers the life and legacy of Renée de France (1510–75), the youngest daughter of King Louis XII and Anne de Bretagne, exploring her cultural, spiritual, and political influence and her evolving roles and actions as fille de France, Duchess...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-07-23
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  French Royal Women during the Restoration and July Monarchy

This book examines public discussions around France's four most prominent royal women during the first and second Restoration and July Monarchy: the duchesse d’Angoulême, the duchesse de Berry, Queen of the French Marie-Amélie, and Adélaïde d’Orléans. These...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-06-10
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  The Archaeology and Material Culture of Queenship in Medieval Hungary, 1000–1395

This book explores an alternate history of the power and agency of 30 Hungarian queens over 400 years by a rigorous examination of the material culture connected with their lives. By researching the objects, images, and spaces, it demonstrates how these women...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-04-21
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Chaucer's Queens

This book investigates the agency and influence of medieval queens in late fourteenth-century England, focusing on the patronage and intercessory activities of the queens Philippa of Hainault and Anne of Bohemia, as well as the princess Joan of Kent. It examines the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-01-04
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn

This book explores 500 years of poetry, drama, novels, television and films about Anne Boleyn. Hundreds of writers across the centuries have been drawn to reimagine the story of her rise and fall. The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn tells the story of centuries of these...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-10-28
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Queenship and the Women of Westeros

Is the world of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s Game of Thrones really medieval? How accurately does it reflect the real Middle Ages? Historians have been addressing these questions since the book and television series exploded into a cultural...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-11-07
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Spenser's Heavenly Elizabeth

This book reveals the queen behind Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. Placing Spenser’s epic poem in the context of the tumultuous sixteenth century, Donald Stump offers a groundbreaking reading of the poem as an allegory of Elizabeth I’s life. By narrating the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-11-07
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France

This collection examines the afterlives of early modern English and French rulers. Spanning five centuries of cultural memory, the volume offers case studies of how kings and queens were remembered, represented, and reincarnated in a wide range of sources, from...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-08-06
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Becoming a Queen in Early Modern Europe

Queens of Poland are conspicuously absent from the study of European queenship—an absence which, together with early modern Poland’s marginal place in the historiography, results in a picture of European royal culture that can only be lopsided and incomplete. Katarzyna...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-03-18
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Elizabeth I of England through Valois Eyes

This book examines the first thirty years of Elizabeth I’s reign from the perspective of the Valois kings, Charles IX and Henri III of France. Estelle Paranque sifts through hundreds of French letters and ambassadorial reports to construct a fuller picture of early...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-10-27
Collection : Queenship and Power
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Télécharger le livre :  Queen Caroline and Sir William Gell

This book explores the relationship between Queen Caroline, one of the most enigmatic characters in Regency England, and Sir William Gell, the leading classical scholar of his day. Despised and rejected by her husband, Caroline created a sphere and court of her own...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-09-25
Collection : Queenship and Power
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