Limit search to available items
41 results found. Sorted by relevance | date | title .
Book Cover
E-book
Author Earenfight, Theresa

Title Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2005

Copies

Description 1 online resource (241 pages)
Series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
Women and gender in the early modern world.
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Proper Names -- PART I: THE PRACTICAL LIMITS OF PARTNERSHIP -- 1 Unwilling Partners: Conflict and Ambition in the Marriage of Peter II of Aragon and Marie de Montpellier -- 2 The Many Roles of the Medieval Queen: Some Examples from Castile -- 3 Absent Kings: Queens as Political Partners in the Medieval Crown of Aragon -- PART II: PRACTISING THE POLITICS OF RELIGION -- 4 Defending Their Jewish Subjects: Elionor of Sicily, Maria de Luna, and the Jews of Morvedre -- 5 Spirit and Force: Politics, Public and Private in the Reign of Maria de Luna (1396-1406) -- 6 The Queen and the Master: Catalina of Lancaster and the Military Orders -- PART III: REPRESENTING THE POLITICS OF QUEENSHIP -- 7 Royal Portraits: Representations of Queenship in the Thirteenth-Century Catalan Chronicles -- 8 Isabel of Castile (1451-1504), Her Self-Representation and Its Context -- 9 Choices and Consequences: The Construction of Isabel de Portugal's Image -- 10 Conspicuous in Her Absence: Mariana of Austria, Juan José of Austria, and the Representation of Her Power -- Bibliography -- Index
Notes Print version record
Subject Queens -- Spain -- History
Marriages of royalty and nobility -- Spain -- History
Power (Social sciences) -- Spain -- History
Marriages of royalty and nobility
Power (Social sciences)
Queens
SUBJECT Spain -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126069
Subject Spain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351907224
1351907220