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

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Queenship in the Mediterranean....Pages 1-7
Female Monarchs in the Medieval Byzantine Court: Prejudice, Disbelief, and Calumnies....Pages 9-25
To Have and Have Not: The Dower of Joanna Plantagenet, Queen of Sicily (1177–1189)....Pages 27-50
The Final Testament of Violante de Aragón (c. 1236–1300/01): Agency and (dis)Empowerment of a Dowager Queen....Pages 51-71
Lost and Found: Visualizing a Medieval Queen’s Destroyed Objects....Pages 73-96
The Political Role of a Portuguese Queen in the Late Fourteenth Century....Pages 97-123
Philippa of Lancaster: The Memory of a Model Queen....Pages 125-144
Not Lost in Translation: Aragonese Court Culture on Tour (1400–1480)....Pages 145-168
Queenly Time in the Reign of Juan II of Castile (1406–1454)....Pages 169-190
Princess Isabel of Portugal: First Lady in a Kingdom without a Queen (1415–1428)....Pages 191-205
Blanca, Queen of Sicily and Queen of Navarre: Connecting the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean via an Aragonese Alliance....Pages 207-227
Consorts of Moroccan Sultans: Lalla Khnata Bint Bakkar “A Woman with Three Kings”....Pages 229-245
The Sovereign and His Wife “Minister”: Charles Emmanuel IV and Marie Clotilde Adélaïde Xavière of France. Interpersonal and Political Relations between the Sovereigns of Sardinia....Pages 247-264
Queenship and Family Dynamics through the Correspondence of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples....Pages 265-286
Back Matter....Pages 287-302