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Informationen zum Autor Theresa Earenfight is Professor Emerita of History at Seattle University, USA. She is the author of Catherine of Aragon: Infanta of Spain, Queen of England (2021) and The King’s Other Body: María of Castile and the Crown of Aragon (2009). She is also the editor of Elite and Royal Households in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2018), Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe (2010) and Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (2005), which won the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women's book prize for best edited collection. Klappentext Medieval queens led richly complex lives and were highly visible women active in a man's world. Linked to kings by marriage, family, and property, queens were vital to the institution of monarchy. In this comprehensive and accessible introduction to the study of queenship, Theresa Earenfight documents the lives and works of queens and empresses across Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages. The book: * introduces pivotal research and sources in queenship studies, and includes exciting and innovative new archival research * highlights four crucial moments across the full span of the Middle Ages - ca. 300, 700, 1100, and 1350 - when Christianity, education, lineage, and marriage law fundamentally altered the practice of queenship * examines theories and practices of queenship in the context of wider issues of gender, authority, and power. This is an invaluable and illuminating text for students, scholars and other readers interested in the role of royal women in medieval society. Zusammenfassung In the first comprehensive survey of Medieval queenship, Earenfight reveals how queens and empresses were fundamental to monarchies across Europe from 300 CE to the Renaissance. An engaging introduction to the study of queenship which presents key research and source material, and examines issues of gender, authority and power in Medieval society. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Not Partial, Prejudiced or Ignorant: The Study of Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe1. Themes and Variations: Roman, Barbarian and Christian Societies in the Fashioning of Medieval Queenship, c. 300-7002. Legitimizing the King’s Wife and Bed-Companion, c. 700-11003. ‘The Link of Conjugal Troth’: Queenship as Family Practice, c. 1100-13504. Queenship in a Crisis of Monarchy, c. 1350-15005. The Transformation of Queenship from Medieval to Early Modern EuropeNotesFor Further ReadingBibliographyIndex...
