A Companion to Global Queenship / / Elena Woodacre.
This collection expands previous regional and individual studies of queenship and female political agency in order to engage in a comparative study of premodern female rule on a global scale. While the field of queenship studies and examinations of gender and power have been flourishing, the literat...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leeds : : Arc Humanities Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- CONTRIBUTORS
- 1. INTRODUCTION: PLACING QUEENSHIP INTO A GLOBAL CONTEXT / Woodacre, Elena
- Part I. PERCEPTIONS OF REGNANT QUEENSHIP
- 2 WHEN THE EMPEROR IS A WOMAN: THE CASE OF WU ZETIAN 武則天 (624-705), THE "EMULATOR OF HEAVEN" / Colla, Elisabetta
- 3. TAMAR OF GEORGIA (1184-1213) AND THE LANGUAGE OF FEMALE POWER / Huneycutt, Lois
- 4. REGNANT QUEENSHIP AND ROYAL MARRIAGE BETWEEN THE LATIN KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM AND THE NOBILITY OF WESTERN EUROPE / Bassett, Hayley
- 5. QUEENSHIP AND FEMALE AUTHORITY IN THE SULTANATE OF DELHI (1206-1526) / Phulera, Jyoti
- 6. ANNA JAGIELLON: A FEMALE POLITICAL FIGURE IN THE EARLY MODERN POLISH- LITHUANIAN COMMONWEALTH / Kosior, Katarzyna
- 7. FEMALE RULE IN IMPERIAL RUSSIA: IS GENDER A USEFUL CATEGORY OF HISTORICAL ANALYSIS? / Beilinson, Orel
- 8. THE TRANSFORMATION OF AN ISLAND QUEEN: QUEEN BÉTI OF MADAGASCAR / Hooper, Jane
- 9. FEMALE RANGATIRA IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND / Norrie, Aidan
- Part II. PRACTISING CO- RULERSHIP
- 10. THE SOCIAL- POLITICAL ROLES OF THE PRINCESS IN KYIVAN RUS', CA. 945-1240 / Zajac, Talia
- 11. IMPRESSIONS OF WELSH QUEENSHIP IN THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES / Messer, Danna R.
- 12. QUEEN ZAYNAB AL-NAFZAWIYYA AND THE BUILDING OF A MEDITERRANEAN EMPIRE IN THE ELEVENTH- CENTURY MAGHREB / Lourinho, Inês
- 13. AL-DALFA' AND THE POLITICAL ROLE OF THE UMM AL-WALAD IN THE LATE UMAYYAD CALIPHATE OF AL-ANDALUS / Miranda, Ana
- 14. THE KHITAN EMPRESS DOWAGERS YINGTIAN AND CHENGTIAN IN LIAO CHINA, 907-1125 / Lin, Hang
- 15. DOWAGER QUEENS AND ROYAL SUCCESSION IN PREMODERN KOREA / Han, Seokyung
- 16. THE AMBIGUITIES OF FEMALE RULE IN NAYAKA SOUTH INDIA, SEVENTEENTH TO EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES / Bes, Lennart
- Part III. BREAKING DOWN BOUNDARIES: COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF QUEENSHIP
- 17. HELENA'S HEIRS: TWO EIGHTH- CENTURY QUEENS / Wragg, Stefany
- 18. THE HOHENSTAUFEN WOMEN AND THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ARAGONESE AND GREEK QUEENSHIP MODELS / Domingo, Lledó Ruiz
- 19. THE "HONOURABLE LADIES" OF NASRID GRANADA: FEMALE POWER AND AGENCY IN THE ALHAMBRA (1400-1450) / Echevarría, Ana / Lluch, Roser Salicrú I
- 20. COMPARING THE FRENCH QUEEN REGENT AND THE OTTOMAN VALIDÉ SULTAN DURING THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES / Langlois, Reneé
- 21. QUEENS AND COURTESANS IN JAPAN AND EARLY MODERN FRANCE / Adams, Tracy / Fookes, Ian
- 22. THE FIGURE OF THE QUEEN MOTHER IN THE EUROPEAN AND AFRICAN MONARCHIES, 1400-1800 / Flores, Diana Pelaz
- INDEX