Queenship, Gender, and Reputation in the Medieval and Early Modern West, 1060-1600

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for her thesis on the queenship, power, and family politics of Yolande of Aragon, and has published a considerable number of papers from her ongoing research. Her interests include power and authority; conjugal collaboration in government; pre-humanist education and endeavor; the spirituality and formative infl uences of royal and aristocratic women; female book ownership and epistolary; piety, patronage, and politics. As well as numerous contributions to edited collections since the award of her doctorate, published by Palgrave Macmillan, Irish Academic Press, Cambridge Scholars, Brill and Brepols, she has recently published a monograph with Palgrave Macmillan, Yolande of Aragon (1381Aragon ( -1442 Power and Family: The Reverse of the Tapestry . In 2004, Rohr was admitted to the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Chevalier) for her contribution to French education and culture, and she is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.