Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe: Proceedings of a Conference held at King's College London, April 1995 PDF
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Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe title: : Proceedings of a Conference Held At King's College London, April 1995 author: Duggan, Anne. publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd. isbn10 | asin: 0851156576 print isbn13: 9780851156576 ebook isbn13: 9780585209623 language: English Queens--Europe--Congresses, Middle Ages- subject -History--Congresses. publication date: 1997 lcc: D107.3.Q44 1997eb ddc: 940.1 Queens--Europe--Congresses, Middle Ages- subject: -History--Congresses. -History--Congresses. Page i Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe The image, status and function of queens and empresses, regnant and consort, in kingdoms stretching from England to Jerusalem in the European Middle Ages, are the focus of these studies. They confront many of the central issues in the study of women's authority and power in medieval societies and raise questions about the perception of women rulers in contemporary records (and modem historical writing). Did queens exercise real or counterfeit power? Did the promotion of the cult of the Virgin enhance or restrict their sphere of action? Is it time to revise the early feminist view of women as victims? Important papers on Emma of England, Margaret of Scotland, coronation and burial ritual, Byzantine empresses and Scandinavian queens, among others, clearly indicate that a reassessment of 'women's work' and the role of women in the world of medieval dynastic politics is under way. Page iii Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe Proceedings of a Conference Held at King's College, London, April 1995 Edited By Anne J. Duggan THE BOYDELL PRESS Page iv © Contributors 1997 All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner First published 1997 The Boydell Press, Woodbridge ISBN 0 85115 657 6 The Boydell Press is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604-4126, USA A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Queens and queenship in medieval Europe: proceedings of a conference held at King's College London, April 1995 / edited by Anne J. Duggan. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-85115-657-6 (alk. paper) 1. Queens - Europe - Congresses. 2. Middle Ages - History - Congresses. I. Duggan, Anne. 0107.3.Q44 1997 940.1 - DC21 97-917 This publication is printed on acid-free paper Printed in Great Britain by St Edmundsbury Press Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Page v CONTENTS List of Illustrations vii Contributors ix Abbreviations xi Preface xiii Introduction xv Anne J. Duggan I. Queens and Empresses in the West 1 3 Emma: The Powers of the Queen in the Eleventh Century Pauline Stafford 2 27 Queen Margaret of Scotland (1070-1093): Burying the Past, Enshrining the Future Valerie Wall 3 39 Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France, 1193-1223 George Conklin 4 39 Late Medieval Scandinavian Queenship Steinar Imsen 5 75 From Famous Empresses to Unspectacular Queens: The Romano-German Empire to Margaret of Brabant, Countess of Luxemburg and Queen of the Romans (d. 1311) Kurt-Ulrich Jäschke 6 109 A Medieval Queen and her Stepdaughter: Agnes and Elizabeth of Hungary Volker Honemann II. Image and Reality in the East 7 123 Goddess, Whore, Wife or Slave? Will the Real Byzantine Empress Please Stand Up? Liz James 8 141 Behind the Mask: Empresses and Empire in Middle Byzantium Dion C. Smythe Page vi 9 153 Queen or Consort: Rulership and Politics in the Latin East, 1118-1228 Sarah Lambert III. Images of Queenship 10 173 Mafia Regina: Papal Symbol Mary Stroll 11 205 Queen and Patron Diana Webb 12 223 Queens as Scapegoats in Medieval Hungary János M. Bak 13 235 The Image of the Queen in Old French Literature Karen Pratt IV. Queens and Culture 14 263 The Architecture of Queenship: Royal Saints, Female Dynasties and the Spread of Gothic Architecture in Central Europe Paul Crossley 15 301 Early Medieval Rites of Queen-Making and the Shaping of Medieval Queenship Janet L. Nelson 16 317 'Never was a body buried in England with such solemnity and honour': The Burials and Posthumous Commemorations of English Queens to 1500 John Carmi Parsons Index 339
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