Queenship in the Mediterranean Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras |
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| Editor:
| Woodacre, Elena |
| Series title: | Queenship and Power Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-137-36282-7 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2013 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan
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| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $129.99 |
Book Description:
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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 queenship in the medieval and Early Modern eras.
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 queenship in the medieval and Early Modern eras.