Scholars of kingship and queenship have long acknowledged that producing an heir was an expected duty for medieval queens and kings. Indeed, motherhood has been a focal point in medieval queenship scholarship since the field’s beginning in the 1980s. Scholars have explored the gendered ideal of queenship and shown that maternity was a key function of the king’s wife that enabled medieval queens to exert political influence. Recently, scholars have considered how queens without children were still able to successfully execute their role, by substituting social motherhood and other facets of queenship, like intercession and religious patronage, in place of biological motherhood. Kings needed heirs, but gendered analysis of kings...
This article examines representations of female fertility and marital sexuality at a time of reprodu...
This dissertation explores the reigns of two early sixteenth-century queens consort of England and S...
This essay explores how female characters in historical literature written in high to late medieval ...
2018-05-23This dissertation makes a timely and substantive contribution to the emerging field of the...
Since the first civilizations emerged, reproductive ability has been one of the most prominent eleme...
Pregnancy and childbirth is a biologically and socially constructed event which shaped the lives of ...
Fertility was a key theme of medieval rulership. To conceive and give birth to sons – and thus to en...
Between 1299 and 1369 there was a continuous succession of queen consorts and queen dowagers. Marga...
Discussions of the legal rights and disabilities of illegitimate children abound in the historical r...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DO...
Regnant queenship is one of the defining features of the early modern era. During this period Englan...
While an early modern queen was expected to act as a stabilizing presence by giving birth to heirs a...
This dissertation is a comparative study of children who succeeded as kings of England, Scotland, Fr...
In the early middle ages, the conversion of the early English kingdoms acted as a catalyst for signi...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DO...
This article examines representations of female fertility and marital sexuality at a time of reprodu...
This dissertation explores the reigns of two early sixteenth-century queens consort of England and S...
This essay explores how female characters in historical literature written in high to late medieval ...
2018-05-23This dissertation makes a timely and substantive contribution to the emerging field of the...
Since the first civilizations emerged, reproductive ability has been one of the most prominent eleme...
Pregnancy and childbirth is a biologically and socially constructed event which shaped the lives of ...
Fertility was a key theme of medieval rulership. To conceive and give birth to sons – and thus to en...
Between 1299 and 1369 there was a continuous succession of queen consorts and queen dowagers. Marga...
Discussions of the legal rights and disabilities of illegitimate children abound in the historical r...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DO...
Regnant queenship is one of the defining features of the early modern era. During this period Englan...
While an early modern queen was expected to act as a stabilizing presence by giving birth to heirs a...
This dissertation is a comparative study of children who succeeded as kings of England, Scotland, Fr...
In the early middle ages, the conversion of the early English kingdoms acted as a catalyst for signi...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DO...
This article examines representations of female fertility and marital sexuality at a time of reprodu...
This dissertation explores the reigns of two early sixteenth-century queens consort of England and S...
This essay explores how female characters in historical literature written in high to late medieval ...