This paper considers the factors which enabled women to access power via developing mechanisms for royal succession in medieval Europe and how this access was mediated through partnership with co-rulers, including consorts, sons and other co-opted family members and councilors. Finally the paper considers the relationship between the female rulers of the Middle Ages and the famous Monstrous Regiment in Early Modern Europe
Although the queens of Navarre form the largest group of female sovereigns ruling in one kingdom dur...
This is the first study of noblewomen in twelfth-century England and Normandy, and of the ways in wh...
Abstract only availableFaculty Mentor: Dr. Lois Huneycutt, HistoryMedieval women are often viewed as...
This paper considers ruling women through the lens of gender and succession, mostly between 1300 and...
During the middle Ages, women were often considered best as pawns in the chess-game of political and...
This paper examines the role of queenship in the medieval and Early Modern era, and attempts to prov...
This paper explores the question of queenship in the Crusader States, specifically the Kingdom of J...
Between 1299 and 1369 there was a continuous succession of queen consorts and queen dowagers. Marga...
This dissertation is a comparative study of Urraca of León-Castilla (r. 1109–1126), Melisende of Jer...
Current research on queens exposes the biased weaknesses in much of the scholarly work on monarchy a...
The role of women in society, in particular, women in leadership positions, constantly is debated. H...
Women and their relationship to sovereignty, during the early modern era has become a rapidly growin...
This series focuses on the exercise of power, influence and authority by particular categories, rank...
In 1325, Isabella of France, Queen of England (1308-1358), raised an army and with her lover rose ...
In the mid-1500s, England was reeling from its first experience under the rule of a female queen. Ma...
Although the queens of Navarre form the largest group of female sovereigns ruling in one kingdom dur...
This is the first study of noblewomen in twelfth-century England and Normandy, and of the ways in wh...
Abstract only availableFaculty Mentor: Dr. Lois Huneycutt, HistoryMedieval women are often viewed as...
This paper considers ruling women through the lens of gender and succession, mostly between 1300 and...
During the middle Ages, women were often considered best as pawns in the chess-game of political and...
This paper examines the role of queenship in the medieval and Early Modern era, and attempts to prov...
This paper explores the question of queenship in the Crusader States, specifically the Kingdom of J...
Between 1299 and 1369 there was a continuous succession of queen consorts and queen dowagers. Marga...
This dissertation is a comparative study of Urraca of León-Castilla (r. 1109–1126), Melisende of Jer...
Current research on queens exposes the biased weaknesses in much of the scholarly work on monarchy a...
The role of women in society, in particular, women in leadership positions, constantly is debated. H...
Women and their relationship to sovereignty, during the early modern era has become a rapidly growin...
This series focuses on the exercise of power, influence and authority by particular categories, rank...
In 1325, Isabella of France, Queen of England (1308-1358), raised an army and with her lover rose ...
In the mid-1500s, England was reeling from its first experience under the rule of a female queen. Ma...
Although the queens of Navarre form the largest group of female sovereigns ruling in one kingdom dur...
This is the first study of noblewomen in twelfth-century England and Normandy, and of the ways in wh...
Abstract only availableFaculty Mentor: Dr. Lois Huneycutt, HistoryMedieval women are often viewed as...