Queenship in the Mediterranean Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras
Description
This groundbreaking collection explores the key roles that Mediterranean queens played as wives, as mothers, and above all as political actors. Ranging from Byzantine empresses to regnants and consorts in the Italian peninsula, they offer a bracing new perspective on queenship in the medieval and Early Modern eras.
Keywords
HistoryEuropeModernMedievalSocial HistoryItaly
2013Book
Author(s)Elena Woodacre
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9781137362827
LanguageEnglish
