Queenship in the Mediterranean: Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras

306 Pages·2013·2.37 MB·English

by  Elena Woodacre (eds.)

QUEENSHIP AND POWER
Series Editors: Carole Levin and Charles Beem
T his series brings together monographs, edited volumes, and textbooks from scholars
specializing in gender analysis; women’s studies; literary interpretation; and cultural,
political, constitutional, and diplomatic history. It aims to broaden our understanding of
the strategies that queens—both consorts and regnants, as well as female r egents—pursued
in order to wield political power within the structures of male-dominant societies. In
addition to works describing European queenship, it also includes books on queenship
as it appeared in other parts of the world, such as East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and
Islamic civilization.
Editorial Board
Linda Darling, University of Arizona (Ottoman Empire)
Theresa Earenfi ght, Seattle University (Spain)
Dorothy Ko, Barnard College (China)
Nancy Kollman, Stanford University (Russia)
John Thornton, Boston University (Africa and the Atlantic World)
John Watkins (France and Italy)
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Learned Queen: The Imperial Image of Elizabeth I
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High and Mighty Queens of Early Modern England: Realities and Representations
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The Monstrous Regiment of Women: Female Rulers in Early Modern Europe
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The Face of Queenship: Early Modern Representations of Elizabeth I
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The Death of Elizabeth I: Remembering and Reconstructing the Virgin Queen
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Three Medieval Queens: Queenship and the Crown in Fourteenth-Century England
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Mary I: Gender, Power, and Ceremony in the Reign of England’s First Queen
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Queenship in the Mediterranean: Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and
Early Modern Eras
Edited by Elena Woodacre
Q
UEENSHIP IN
M
THE EDITERRANEAN
NEGOTIATING THE ROLE OF
THE QUEEN IN THE MEDIEVAL AND
EARLY MODERN ERAS
Edited by
Elena Woodacre
QUEENSHIP IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
Copyright © Elena Woodacre, 2013.
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C
ONTENTS
List of Figures vii
Preface and Acknowledgments i x
1 I ntroduction: Queenship in the Mediterranean 1
E lena Woodacre
2 Female Monarchs in the Medieval Byzantine Court:
Prejudice, Disbelief, and Calumnies 9
A lexandra Karagianni
3 To Have and Have Not: The Dower of Joanna Plantagenet,
Queen of Sicily (1177–1189) 2 7
C olette Bowie
4 The Final Testament of Violante de Arag ó n
(c. 1236–1300/01): Agency and (dis)Empowerment
of a Dowager Queen 51
M elissa R. Katz
5 Lost and Found: Visualizing a Medieval Queen’s
Destroyed Objects 73
M ariah Proctor-Tiffany
6 The Political Role of a Portuguese Queen in
the Late Fourteenth Century 9 7
I sabel de Pina Baleiras
7 Philippa of Lancaster: The Memory of a Model Queen 1 25
A na Rodrigues Oliveira
8 Not Lost in Translation: Aragonese Court Culture on
Tour (1400–1480) 145
Z ita Rohr
9 Queenly Time in the Reign of Juan II of
Castile (1406–1454) 1 69
D iana Pelaz Flores
vi Contents
10 Princess Isabel of Portugal: First Lady in
a Kingdom without a Queen (1415–1428) 191
M anuela Santos Silva
11 Blanca, Queen of Sicily and Queen of Navarre:
Connecting the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean via
an Aragonese Alliance 207
E lena Woodacre
12 Consorts of Moroccan Sultans: Lalla Khnata Bint Bakkar
“A Woman with Three Kings” 229
F atima Rhorchi
13 The Sovereign and His Wife “Minister”: Charles
Emmanuel IV and Marie Clotilde Ad é la ï de Xavi è re of
France. Interpersonal and Political Relations between
the Sovereigns of Sardinia 247
F ederica Contu
14 Queenship and Family Dynamics through the
Correspondence of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples 265
C inzia Recca
Contribitors 287
Index 291
F
IGURES

3.1 Joanna’s dowerlands 32
5.1 The tomb effi gy (marble) of Cl é mence of
Hungary (c. 1328) 7 5
5.2 Table of the belongings in the inventory by
section, showing 1328 sale prices in Parisian pounds 79
5.3 1328 value of groups of Cl é mence’s
movable possessions 8 1
5.4 January calendar page, T he tr è s riches heures of
Jean, duc de Berry , the Limbourg Brothers, 1412–1416 83
5.5 List of objects Cl é mence of Hungary
bequeathed in her testament 8 4
5.6 A silver-gilt clasp in the form of an “M” with
enamel, rubies, diamond, emerald, and pearls with
fi gurines of Gabriel and Mary 87
5.7 Portable shrine of Robert of Naples
(early fourteenth century) 8 8
5.8 Genealogy of the Capetian and
Angevin royal families 9 0
6.1 Genealogical table of Portugal and Castile 1 04

P
REFACE AND
A
CKNOWLEDGMENTS
T his collection of papers is largely derived from the confer-
ence “Kings & Queens: Power, Politics, Patronage and
Personalities” held at Corsham Court in conjunction with
Bath Spa University in April 2012. Although the conference had a
wonderfully diverse selection of papers on many aspects of male and
female rulership and monarchy generally, this particular knot of papers
centered around queenship in the Mediterranean seemed ideal for a
focused collection. A second volume of proceedings from this confer-
ence, with a different focus and theme, titled The Image and Perception
of Monarchy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe is forthcoming with
Cambridge Scholars Press in 2014. The Kings & Queens conference
series is ongoing; “Kings & Queens 2: Making Connections” is sched-
uled for July 2013 and “Kings & Queens 3: Entourage” will be held in
July 2014, both at the University of Winchester. There are tentative
plans to hold Kings & Queens 4 in Portugal in the summer of 2015,
in connection with a series of events to commemorate the death of
Philippa of Lancaster, Queen of Portugal in 1415.
There are a number of people whose help and support have made
this volume possible. First and foremost, I would like to thank the
contributors whose boundless enthusiasm and hard work have been
absolutely crucial to the completion of this project. Each and every
one has been a delight to work with, and I have been incredibly for-
tunate to have such a wonderful group of dedicated scholars whose
impressive expertise and collaborative spirit have created this
work.
I would also like to thank Bath Spa University for their support in
providing the funding and venue to make the first Kings & Queens
conference possible; particularly Professor Paul Davies, my former
supervisor Dr. Roberta Anderson, and the whole team at Corsham
Court. Professor Elaine Chalus’ support and advice have also been
greatly appreciated. Thanks also to the Department of History at