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Queenship in the Mediterranean

Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras
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Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137362827
eText ISBN:9781137362834
Edition:0
Copyright:2013
Format:Reflowable

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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.