A Companion to Global Queenship
This collection brings together case studies of premodern queenship in a truly global comparative context, highlighting the vitally important place that women occupied at the heart of the realm.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Amsterdam : Arc Humanities Press,
2018
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Arc Companions Ser.
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| Schlagworte: | Queens Kings and rulers Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (336 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | This collection brings together case studies of premodern queenship in a truly global comparative context, highlighting the vitally important place that women occupied at the heart of the realm. Cover -- Contents -- Untitled -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. When the Emperor Is a Woman -- 3. Tamar of Georgia (1184-1213) and the Language of Female Power -- 4. Regnant Queenship and Royal Marriage between the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Nobility of Western Europe -- 5. Queenship and Female Authority in the Sultanate of Delhi (1206-1526) -- 6. Anna Jagiellon -- 7. Female Rule in Imperial Russia -- 8. The Transformation of an Island Queen -- 9. Female Rangatira in Aotearoa New Zealand -- 10. The Social-Political Roles of the Princess in Kyivan Rus', ca. 945-1240 -- 11. Impressions of Welsh Queenship in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries -- 12. Queen Zaynab al-Nafzawiyya and the Building of a Mediterranean Empire in the Eleventh-Century Maghreb -- 13. Al-Dalfa' and the Political Role of the umm al-walad in the Late Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus -- 14. The Khitan Empress Dowagers Yingtian and Chengtian in Liao China, 907-1125 -- 15. Dowager Queens and Royal Succession in Premodern Korea -- 16. The Ambiguities of Female Rule in Nayaka South India, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries -- 17. Helena's Heirs -- 18. The Hohenstaufen Women and the Differences between Aragonese and Greek Queenship Models -- 19. The "Honourable Ladies" of Nasrid Granada -- 20. Comparing the French Queen Regent and the Ottoman Validé Sultan during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 21. Queens and Courtesans in Japan and Early Modern France -- 22. The Figure of the Queen Mother in the European and African Monarchies, 1400-1800 -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (336 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781942401476 1942401477 9781942401469 1942401469 |