By Zita Eva Rohr,Lisa Benz
ISBN-10: 3319312820
ISBN-13: 9783319312828
This edited assortment opens new how one can examine queenship in parts and nations now not frequently studied and displays the more and more interdisciplinary paintings and geographic variety of the sector. This booklet is a forerunner in queenship and re-invents the reputations of the ladies and a few of the lads. The individuals solutions questions about the character of queenship, popularity of queens, and gender roles within the medieval and early glossy west. The essays query the viability of propaganda, gossip, and rumor that also characterizes a few queens in glossy histories. The large geographic diversity coated by means of the participants strikes queenship experiences past France and England to understudied areas resembling Sweden and Hungary. Even the essays on extra time-honored international locations explores parts now not often studied, equivalent to the function of Edward II’s stepmother, Margaret of France in Gaveston’s downfall. The chapters basically have a typical thread and the editors’ precis and outline of the gathering is efficacious in aiding the reader. the gathering is split into sections “Biography, Gossip, and background” and “Politics, Ambition, and Scandal.” The editors and members, together with Zita Eva Rohr and Elena Woodacre, are students on the most sensible in their box and several other and interact and debate with contemporary scholarship. This assortment will allure the world over to literary students and gender reports students to boot historians attracted to the international locations integrated within the collection.
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