A Companion to Global Queenship (Arc Companions)

Synopsis

Placing Queenship Into A Global Context / Elena Woodacre -- When The Emperor Is A Woman : The Case Of Wu Zetian (624-705), The Emulator Of Heaven / Elisabetta Colla -- Tamar Of Georgia (1184-1213) And The Language Of Female Power / Lois Huneycutt -- Regnant Queenship And Royal Marriage Between The Latin Kingdom Of Jerusalem And The Nobility Of Western Europe / Hayley Bassett -- Queenship And Female Authority In The Sultanate Of Delhi (1206-1526) / Jyoti Phulera -- Anna Jagiellon : A Female Political Figure In The Early Modern Polish-lithuanian Commonwealth / Katarzyna Kosior -- Female Rule In Imperial Russia : Is Gender A Useful Category Of Historical Analysis? / Orel Beilinson -- The Transformation Of An Island Queen : Queen Béti Of Madagascar / Jane Hooper -- Female Rangatira In Aotearoa New Zealand / Aidan Norrie -- The Social-political Roles Of The Princess In Kyivan Rusʹ Ca. 945-1240 / Talia Zajac -- Impressions Of Welsh Queenship In The Twelfth And Thirteenth Centuries / Danna R. Messer -- Queen Zaynab Al-nafzawiyya And The Building Of A Mediterranean Empire In The Eleventh-century Maghreb / Inês Lourinho -- Ai-dalfa' And The Political Role Of The Umm Ai-walad In The Late Umayyad Caliphate Of Ai-andalus / Ana Miranda -- The Khitan Empress Dowagers Yingtian And Chengtian In Liao China, 907-1125 / Hang Lin -- Dowager Queens And Royal Succession In Premodern Korea / Seokyung Han -- The Ambiguities Of Female Rule In Nayaka South India, Seventeenth To Eighteenth Centuries / Lennart Bes -- Helena's Heirs : Two Eighth-century Queens / Stefany Wragg -- The Hohenstaufen Women And The Differences Between Aragonese And Greek Queenship Models / Lledó Ruiz Domingo -- The Honourble Ladies Of Nasrid Granada : Female Power And Agency In The Alhambra (1400-1450) / Ana Echevarría And Roser Salicrú I Lluch -- Comparing The French Queen Regent And The Ottoman Validé Sultan During The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries / Reneé Langlois -- Queens And Courtesans In Japan And Early Modern France / Tracy Adams And Ian Fookes -- The Figure Of The Queen Mother In The European And African Monarchies, 1400-1800 / Diana Pelaz Flores. Edited By Elena Woodacre. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.