Unlike empresses in Germany and queens in England and France, the lives and political careers of most Iberian queens remain largely unknown to non-specialists. In this collection, Theresa Earenfight brings together new research on medieval and early modern Spanish queens that highlights the distinctive political culture that resulted in forms of queenship similar to, yet also substantially different from, that of northern Europe. The essays consider three aspects of queenship and politics: the institutional foundations and practice of politics, the politics of religion and religious devotion, and the literary and artistic representations of queenship and power. Late medieval queens, because they often occupied prominent and powerful offices such as the regency in Castile and Portugal and the Lieutenancy in the Crown of Aragon, exemplify a unique form of queenship that can best be described as a political partnership. Habsburg queens and empresses, often excluded from such official political roles, were less publicly visible but their power as partner to the king, although shrouded, remains potent. Their political careers were the result of two forces: first, military circumstances brought about by territorial expansion, conquest, and second, a political culture that did not explicitly prohibit queens from active participation in the governance of the realm. The essays in this collection-by both newer and well established scholars-demonstrate the range and depth of current research on Iberian queenship, and prompt a re-examination of long-held assumptions about women and the exercise of power in pre-modern Spain.
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Theresa Earenfight is Associate Professor of History at Seattle University.
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The ideal feudal marriage in the period before the Albigensian crusades in Languedoc, and, it appears, in the Crown of Aragon as well, created a partnership. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Maria de Luna, Jews of Morvedre, Queen Elionor, Lieutenant General, New York, Queen Maria, King Marti, King Pere, Middle Ages, Catalina of Lancaster, Mariana of Austria, Santa Maria, Maria de Castilla, Marie de Montpellier, Juana Enriquez, Maria of Castile, Marti the Young, Redondo Cantera, Alfonso the Magnanimous, Cambridge University Press, Elionor of Sicily, Isabel de Portugal, Maria de Molina, Mary of Hungary, Pere the Ceremonious New!
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The ideal feudal marriage in the period before the Albigensian crusades in Languedoc, and, it appears, in the Crown of Aragon as well, created a partnership. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
quatre grans crdniques, medieval queenship, edad media, imperial couple, political partnership Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maria de Luna, Jews of Morvedre, Queen Elionor, Lieutenant General, New York, Queen Maria, King Marti, King Pere, Middle Ages, Catalina of Lancaster, Mariana of Austria, Santa Maria, Maria de Castilla, Marie de Montpellier, Juana Enriquez, Maria of Castile, Marti the Young, Redondo Cantera, Alfonso the Magnanimous, Cambridge University Press, Elionor of Sicily, Isabel de Portugal, Maria de Molina, Mary of Hungary, Pere the Ceremonious New!
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- Medieval Queenship by John C. Parsons on 6 pages
- The Cult of Elizabeth: Elizabethan Portraiture and Pageantry by Roy Strong on 5 pages
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- Gender and the Politics of History by Joan Wallach Scott on 4 pages
- A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World) by Mark D. Meyerson in Front Matter, page 55, and Back Matter
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- Religious Women In Golden Age Spain: The Permeable Cloister (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) by Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt in Front Matter
- Musical Voices Of Early Modern Women: Many Headed Melodies (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) by Thomasin K. LaMay in Front Matter
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