From She-Wolf to Martyr : : The Reign and Disputed Reputation of Johanna I of Naples /

From She-Wolf to Martyr : : The Reign and Disputed Reputation of Johanna I of Naples / / Elizabeth Casteen.

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In 1343 a seventeen-year-old girl named Johanna (1326–1382) ascended the Neapolitan throne, becoming the ruling monarch of one of medieval Europe's most important polities. For nearly forty years, she held her throne and the avid attention of her contemporaries. Their varied responses to her re...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Casteen, Elizabeth,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 7 halftones, 2 genealogies, 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Genealogies
  • Maps
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Murder of Andrew of Hungary and the Making of a Neapolitan She-Wolf
  • 2. From She-Wolf to Radiant Queen: The Reign of Louis of Taranto and the Rehabilitation of Johanna of Naples
  • 3. A Most Loving Daughter: Filial Piety and the Apogee of Johanna’s Reign
  • 4. An “Especially Good Friend” to Saints: Friendship, Politics, and the Performance of Sovereignty
  • 5. The Schism of the Western Church and the Division of Johanna of Naples
  • Epilogue
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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