Premodern Ruling Sexualities - Representation, Identity, and Power

This volume explores a range of premodern rulers and their depictions in historiography, literature, art and material culture to gain a broader understanding of their sexualities. It considers the methodologies and motivations of premodern writers and rulers when fashioning royal and elite sexualities and offers new analyses of an array of texts and artwork from across Europe and the wider Mediterranean.

About the author

Gabrielle Storey is a historian of monarchy, gender, and sexuality, and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Zita Eva Rohr is a historian of the late medieval and early modern period, an honorary research fellow in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University, Sydney, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques

Product details

• Authors: Gabrielle Rohr Storey
• Assisted by: Rohr Zita Eva (Editor), Gabrielle Storey (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 20.01.2026
• EAN: 9781526195807
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-9580-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Medieval History, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Gender studies, gender groups, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Sexual Behaviour, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality