| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Series |
Arc Companions |
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Arc Companions
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| Contents |
Chapter 1. Introduction: Placing Queenship into a Global Context, p.1 / ELENA WOODACRE -- Part I Perceptions of Regnant Queenship -- Chapter 2. When the Emperor Is a Woman: The Case of Wu Zetian(624-705), the "Emulator of Heaven", p.13 / EUSABETTA COLLA -- Chapter 3. Tamar of Georgia (1184-1213) and the Language of Female Power, p.27 / LOIS HUNEYCUTT -- Chapter 4. Regnant Queenship and Royal Marriage between the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Nobility of Western Europe, p.39 / HAYLEY BASSETT -- Chapter 5. Queenship and Female Authority in the Sultanate of Delhi (1206-1526), p.53 / JYOTI PHULERA -- Chapter 6. Anna Jagiellon: A Female Political Figure in the Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, p.67 / KATARZYNA KOSIOR -- Chapter 7. Female Rule in Imperial Russia: Is Gender a Useful Category of Historical Analysis?, p.79 / OREL BEILINSON -- Chapter 8. The Transformation of an Island Queen: Queen Beti of Madagascar, p.95 / JANE HOOPER -- Chapter 9. Female Rangatira in Aotearoa New Zealand, p.109 / AIDAN NORRIE -- Part II Practising Co-Rulership -- Chapter 10. The Social-Political Roles of the Princess in Kyivan Rus', ca. 945-1240, p.125 / TALIA ZAJAC -- Chapter 11. Impressions of Welsh Queenship in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, p.147 / DANNA R. MESSER -- Chapter 12. Queen Zaynab al-Nafzawiyya and the Building of a Mediterranean Empire in the Eleventh-Century Maghreb, p.159 / INES LOURINHO -- Chapter 13. Al-Dalfa' and the Political Role of the umm al-walad in the Late Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus, p.171 / ANA MIRANDA -- Chapter 14. The Khitan Empress Dowagers Yingtian and Chengtian in Liao China, 907-1125, p.183 / HANG LIN -- Chapter 15. Dowager Queens and Royal Succession in Premodern Korea, p.195 / SEOKYUNG HAN -- Chapter 16. The Ambiguities of Female Rule in Nayaka South India, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries, p.209 / LENNART BES -- Part III Breaking Down Boundaries: Comparative Studies of Queenship -- Chapter 17. Helena's Heirs: Two Eighth-Century Queens, p.233 / STEFANYWRAGG -- Chapter 18. The Hohenstaufen Women and the Differences between Aragonese and Greek Queenship Models, p.245 / LLEDO RUIZ DOMINGO -- Chapter 19. The "Honourable Ladies" of Nasrid Granada: Female Power and Agency in the Alhambra (1400-1450), p.255 / ANA ECHEVARRIA and ROSER SALICRti ILLUCH -- Chapter 20. Comparing the French Queen Regent and the Ottoman Valide Sultan during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, p.271 / RENEE LANGLOIS -- Chapter 21. Queens and Courtesans in Japan and Early Modern France, p.285 / TRACY ADAMS and IAN FOOKES -- Chapter 22. The Figure of the Queen Mother in the European and African Monarchies, 1400-1800, p.299 / DIANA PELAZ FLORES -- Index, p.309 |
| Summary |
This collection brings together case studies of premodern queenship in a truly global comparative context, highlighting the vitally important place that women occupied at the heart of the realm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Queens.
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Kings and rulers
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royalties (compensation)
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queens (people)
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rulers (people)
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tsars.
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kings (people)
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HISTORY -- World.
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Kings and rulers
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Queens
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Sources
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History
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Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Woodacre, Elena, editor
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| LC no. |
2019300997 |
| ISBN |
1942401477 |
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9781942401476 |
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1942401469 |
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9781942401469 |
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9781641899529 |
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1641899522 |
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