Lessons for My Daughter: Self-fashioning Stateswomanship in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon

Rohr, Zita Eva

doi:10.1163/9789004291003_004

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“…Analysis of queens' libraries, tutors at court, and letters has opened up conversation circles back to questions of queenship as a national or familial institution. Colette Bowie (), on the daughters of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II of England, and Zita Rohr (), on several generations of French and Aragonese queens, argue that queens played a vital role in transmitting queenship to their daughters. Emily Francomano's translation and edition of Three Spanish Querelle Texts in the 15th century argues that Spanish queens educated their daughters in a milieu of misogynist political treatises.…”

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Medieval queenship

Earenfight

2017

History Compass

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This essay surveys new identities and frameworks for the study of medieval queens that have emerged over the past 30 years and argues that the study of queens and the practice of queenship has transformed the study of monarchy. Queenship is understood by most scholars to be a cluster of customs, practices, and political theory that focuses on who queens were and what they did; how they were perceived by their peers; and how they were vital to family, culture, religion, and economics in the European Middle Ages. Empirical research on queens and empresses cuts across time and space and is grounded in feminist theory and methods; it rejects traditional masculine‐centered political history in favor of a nuanced understanding of women and power.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%