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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"queenship"”.
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Practices and performances of queenship: Catherine of Aragon and Margaret Tudor, 1503-1533
… since the emergence of a robust field of queenship studies, which has combined women’s and gender history with the study of international court culture and politics. This study argues that the particular type of female authority available to queens in monarchical, dynastic regimes must be …
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The King’s Sick Body: The Spiritual and Social Implications of Arnau of Vilanova’s Regimen Sanitatis
… locating Blanca in the context of Aragonese queenship and female readership/patronage of scholarly medical texts. Finally, I discuss two Catalan translations of the Regimen, with a specific focus on what was preserved and what was lost in translation, as well as the influence of the Catalan …
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‘Knot of Love and Concord’: Loyalty in the Life of Mary I
… an emotional practice that shaped Queen Mary I’s queenship. Emotion has always been at the centre of scholarly assessments of Mary, but it has been used predominantly to dismiss her as hysterical and poor in judgement – in other words, a poor politician, monarch and head of state. However, this …
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The lioness roared: The problems of female rule in English history
… literature concerned with European kingship and queenship, and gender studies of European women, to create an historical context within which to examine female rule in English history. While this dissertation does not include an original study of the career of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), the …
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Engendering Power: Dynastic Women And Visual Culture In The Hellenistic World (fourth-First Centuries Bce)
… kingship, I demonstrate how dynastic women and queenship shaped royal and/or imperial representations, and how the “private,” domestic spaces of femininity could be central to “public” hegemonic art. Dynastic women were mostly absent from public and private display throughout the Mediterranean …
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“Princes upon Stages”: the Theatricalization of Monarchy in the Reign of Elizabeth I, 1558-1569
The reign of Elizabeth I of England is one of the most celebrated reigns in history and is renowned for the renaissance of the arts, theater, and culture. Authors, playwrights, and artists venerated her in their art in what became known as the Cult of Gloriana. At her accession, however, her …
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Child Kingship in England, Scotland, France, and Germany, c.1050 - c.1250
This dissertation is a comparative study of children who succeeded as kings of England, Scotland, France, and Germany as boys under the age of fifteen in the central Middle Ages. Children are often disregarded in the historical record, even those divinely-ordained as king. The research undertaken …
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Performance, Ritual and Messaging in Encomium Emmae reginae
ABSTRACT Performance, Ritual and Messaging in Encomium Emmae reginae This thesis examines the Encomium Emmae reginae primarily through the lens of demonstrative behaviour, which covers the gamut of actions from formal ceremonies to social rituals to individual acts of verbal and non-verbal …