Queenship in the Mediterranean: Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras

by Elena Woodacre and Bath Spa University

Book Overview

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 on queenship in the medieval and Early Modern eras.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349472786
• ISBN13: 9781349472789
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"