Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain.
- 1st ed.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Proper Names -- PART I: THE PRACTICAL LIMITS OF PARTNERSHIP -- 1 Unwilling Partners: Conflict and Ambition in the Marriage of Peter II of Aragon and Marie de Montpellier -- 2 The Many Roles of the Medieval Queen: Some Examples from Castile -- 3 Absent Kings: Queens as Political Partners in the Medieval Crown of Aragon -- PART II: PRACTISING THE POLITICS OF RELIGION -- 4 Defending Their Jewish Subjects: Elionor of Sicily, Maria de Luna, and the Jews of Morvedre -- 5 Spirit and Force: Politics, Public and Private in the Reign of Maria de Luna (1396-1406) -- 6 The Queen and the Master: Catalina of Lancaster and the Military Orders -- PART III: REPRESENTING THE POLITICS OF QUEENSHIP -- 7 Royal Portraits: Representations of Queenship in the Thirteenth-Century Catalan Chronicles -- 8 Isabel of Castile (1451-1504), Her Self-Representation and Its Context -- 9 Choices and Consequences: The Construction of Isabel de Portugal's Image -- 10 Conspicuous in Her Absence: Mariana of Austria, Juan José of Austria, and the Representation of Her Power -- Bibliography -- Index.