Queens & power in medieval and early modern England / edited by Carole Levin and Robert Bucholz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levin, Carole, 1948-

Bucholz, R. O., 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Queens--Great Britain--History.

Queens.

Power (Social sciences)--Great Britain--History.

Power (Social sciences).

Great Britain--Politics and government.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Other Title:

Queens and power in medieval and early modern England

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England, Carole Levin and Robert Bucholz provide a forum for the underexamined, anomalous reigns of queens in history. These regimes, primarily regarded as interruptions to the "normal" male monarchy, have been examined largely as isolated cases. This interdisciplinary study of queens throughout history examines their connections to one another, their constituents' perceptions of them, and the fallacies of their historical reputations. The contributors consider historical queens as well as fictional, mythic, and biblical queens and how they were

Contents:

Introduction: It's good to be queen / Robert Bucholz & Carole Levin

"Greater by marriage" : the matrimonial career of the Empress Matilda / Charles Beem

Widow princess or neglected queen? Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII, and English public opinion, 1533-1536 / Timothy G. Elston

"Most godly heart fraight with al mercie" : queens' mercy during the reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I / Sarah Duncan

Princess Elizabeth travels across her kingdom : in life, in text, and on stage / Carole Levin

Marriage a la mode, 1559 : Elisabeth de Valois, Elizabeth I, and the changing practice of dynastic marriage / John Watkins

Queen Solomon : an international Elizabeth I in 1569 / Linda S. Shenk

The virgin and the widow : the political finesse of Elizabeth I and Catherine de' Medici / Elaine Kruse

Crafting queens : early modern readings of Esther / Michele Osherow

"Shine like an angel with thy starry crown" : Queen Elizabeth the angelic / Anna Riehl

Shakespeare's Queen Cleopatra : an act of translation / Richardine Woodall

"She is the man, and raignes" : popular representations of Henrietta Maria during the English civil wars / Michelle A. White

Sex and the single queen : the erotic lives of Elizabeth Tudor in seventeenth-century England / Marjorie Swann

The "stomach of a queen," or size matters : gender, body image, and the historical reputation of Queen Anne / Robert Bucholz

Two poems / Amber Harris Leichner.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-310) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-13105-2

9786612131059

0-8032-2278-5

OCLC:

316765760