A companion to global queenship. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Elena Woodacre.
• Editors: Woodacre, Elena
• Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: Placing Queenship into a Global Context Elena Woodacre SECTION I: Perceptions of Regnant Queenship Chapter 2: When the Emperor is a woman: the case of Wu Zetian 武則天 (624-705), the 'Emulator of Heaven'. Elisabetta Colla Chapter 3: Tamar of Georgia (1184-1213) and the Language of Female Power Lois Huneycutt Chapter 4: Regnant Queenship and Royal Marriage between the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Nobility of Western Europe Hayley Bassett Chapter 5: Queenship and Female Authority in The Sultanate of Delhi (1206 -1526 AD) Jyoti Phulera Chapter 6: Anna Jagiellon: A Female Political Figure in the Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Katarzyna Kosior Chapter 7: Female Rule in Imperial Russia: Is Gender a Useful Category of Historical Analysis? Orel Beilinson Chapter 8: The Transformation of an Island Queen: Queen Béti of Madagascar Jane Hooper Chapter 9: Female Rangatira in Aotearoa New Zealand Aidan Norrie SECTION II: Practicing Co-rulership Chapter 10: The Social-Political Roles of the Princess in Kyivan Rus', ca. 945-1240 Talia Zajac Chapter 11: Impressions of Welsh Queenship in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries Danna Messer Chapter 12: Queen Zaynab al-Nafzawiyya and the Building of a Mediterranean Empire in the Eleventh Century Maghreb Inês Lourinho Chapter 13: al-Dalfa' and the Political Role of the umm al-walad in the Late Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus. Ana Miranda Chapter 14: The Khitan Empress Dowagers Yingtian and Chengtian in Liao China, 907-1125 Hang Lin Chapter 15: Dowager Queens and Royal Succession in Premodern Korea SeoKyung Han Chapter 16: The Ambiguities of Female Rule in Nayaka South India, Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries Lennart Bes SECTION III: Breaking Down Boundaries: Comparative Studies of Queenship Chapter 17: Helena's Heirs: Two Eighth Century Queens Stefany Wragg Chapter 18: The Hohenstaufen women and the Differences between Aragonese and Greek Queenship Models. Lledó Ruiz Domingo Chapter 19: The 'honourable ladies' of Nasrid Granada: Female Power and Agency in the Alhambra (1400-1450) Ana Echevarría & Roser Salicrú i Lluch Chapter 20: Comparing the French Queen Regent and the Ottoman Validé Sultan during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Reneé Langlois Chapter 21: Queens and Courtesans in Japan and Early-Modern France Tracy Adams and Iain Fookes Chapter 22: The Figure of the Queen Mother in the European and African Monarchies, 1400-1800 Diana Pelaz Flores.
• Edition: New edition
• Publisher Details: Kalamazoo : Arc Humanities Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 352.23082; Queens; Kings and rulers
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781942401476
• Related ISBNs: 9781942401469
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