Queenship in the Mediterranean

1. Introduction: Queenship in the Mediterranean
Elena Woodacre

2. Female Monarchs in the Medieval Byzantine Court: Prejudice, Disbelief, and Calumnies
Alexandra Karagianni

3. To Have and Have Not: The Dower of Joanna Plantagenet, Queen of Sicily (1177–1189)
Colette Bowie

4. The Final Testament of Violante de Aragón (c. 1236–1300/01): Agency and (dis)Empowerment of a Dowager Queen
Melissa R. Katz

5. Lost and Found: Visualizing a Medieval Queen’s Destroyed Objects
Mariah Proctor-Tiffany

6. The Political Role of a Portuguese Queen in the Late Fourteenth Century
Isabel Pina Baleiras

7. Philippa of Lancaster: The Memory of a Model Queen
Ana Rodrigues Oliveira

8. Not Lost in Translation: Aragonese Court Culture on Tour (1400–1480)
Zita Rohr

9. Queenly Time in the Reign of Juan II of Castile (1406–1454)
Diana Pelaz Flores

10. Princess Isabel of Portugal: First Lady in a Kingdom without a Queen (1415–1428)
Manuela Santos Silva

11. Blanca, Queen of Sicily and Queen of Navarre: Connecting the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean via an Aragonese Alliance
Elena Woodacre

12. Consorts of Moroccan Sultans: Lalla Khnata Bint Bakkar “A Woman with Three Kings”
Fatima Rhorchi

13. 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
Federica Contu

14. Queenship and Family Dynamics through the Correspondence of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples
Cinzia Recca

Nyckelord: History, European History, Modern History, History of Medieval Europe, Cultural History, Social History, History of Italy