The five queens of Navarre were the largest group of female sovereigns in one European realm during the Middle Ages, but they are largely unknown beyond a regio...
This groundbreaking collection explores the key roles that Mediterranean queens played as wives, as mothers, and above all as political actors. Ranging from By...
This book is the first full-length biography of Joan of Navarre, a fascinating royal woman who became duchess of Brittany and queen consort of England through h...
byCarey Fleiner,Elena Woodacre
This collection addresses royal motherhood across Europe, from both the medieval and Early Modern periods, including (in)famous and not-so-famousroyal mothers. ...
by Katherine Weikert and Elena Woodacre
Status and gender are two closely associated concepts within medieval society, which tended to view both notions as binary: elite or low status, married or sing...
byElena Woodacre,Janice North,Karl Alvestad
Pop culture portrayals of medieval and early modern monarchs are rife with tension between authenticity and modern mores, producing anachronisms such as a femin...
byElena Woodacre, Lucinda H.S. Dean,Chris Jones,Zita Rohr,Russell Martin
The Routledge History of Monarchy draws together current research across the field of royal studies, providing a rich understanding of the history of monarchy f...
byAidan Norrie,Carolyn Harris,J. L. Laynesmith,Danna Messer,Elena Woodacre
This book examines the lives and tenures of all the consorts of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs of England between 1485 and 1714, as well as the wives of the two ...
byAidan Norrie,Carolyn Harris,J. L. Laynesmith,Danna Messer,Elena Woodacre
This book examines the lives and tenures of the consorts of the Hanoverian, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Windsor monarchs from 1727 to the present. Some of the co...
byAidan Norrie,Carolyn Harris,J. L. Laynesmith,Danna Messer,Elena Woodacre
This book examines the lives and tenures of the consorts of the Plantagenet dynasty during the later Middle Ages, encompassing two major conflicts—the Hundred...
byAidan Norrie,Carolyn Harris,J. L. Laynesmith,Danna Messer,Elena Woodacre
This book examines the emergence of the queen consort in medieval England, beginning with the pre-Conquest era and ending with death of Margaret of France, seco...