Companion to Global Queenship

Elena Woodacre is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern European History at the University of Winchester, UK. She is a specialist in queenship and royal studies and has published extensively in this area. Elena is the Editor in Chief of the Royal Studies Journal, the Series Editor for Gender and Power in the Premodern World, the organizer of the Kings & Queens conference series, and the founder of the Royal Studies Network.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Placing Queenship into a Global ContextElena WoodacreSECTION I: Perceptions of Regnant QueenshipChapter 2: When the Emperor is a woman: the case of Wu Zetian 武則天 (624-705), the 'Emulator of Heaven'.Elisabetta CollaChapter 3: Tamar of Georgia (1184-1213) and the Language of Female PowerLois HuneycuttChapter 4: Regnant Queenship and Royal Marriage between the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Nobility of Western EuropeHayley BassettChapter 5: Queenship and Female Authority in The Sultanate of Delhi (1206 -1526 AD)Jyoti PhuleraChapter 6: Anna Jagiellon: A Female Political Figure in the Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian CommonwealthKatarzyna KosiorChapter 7: Female Rule in Imperial Russia: Is Gender a Useful Category of Historical Analysis?Orel BeilinsonChapter 8: The Transformation of an Island Queen: Queen Béti of MadagascarJane HooperChapter 9: Female Rangatira in Aotearoa New ZealandAidan NorrieSECTION II: Practicing Co-rulershipChapter 10: The Social-Political Roles of the Princess in Kyivan Rus’, ca. 945-1240Talia ZajacChapter 11: Impressions of Welsh Queenship in the Twelfth and Thirteenth CenturiesDanna MesserChapter 12: Queen Zaynab al-Nafzawiyya and the Building of a Mediterranean Empire in the Eleventh Century MaghrebInês LourinhoChapter 13: al-Dalfa’ and the Political Role of the umm al-walad in the Late Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus.Ana MirandaChapter 14: The Khitan Empress Dowagers Yingtian and Chengtian in Liao China, 907-1125Hang LinChapter 15: Dowager Queens and Royal Succession in Premodern KoreaSeoKyung HanChapter 16: The Ambiguities of Female Rule in Nayaka South India, Seventeenth-Eighteenth CenturiesLennart BesSECTION III: Breaking Down Boundaries: Comparative Studies of QueenshipChapter 17: Helena’s Heirs: Two Eighth Century QueensStefany WraggChapter 18: The Hohenstaufen women and the Differences between Aragonese and Greek Queenship Models. Lledó Ruiz DomingoChapter 19: The 'honourable ladies' of Nasrid Granada: Female Power and Agency in the Alhambra (1400-1450)Ana Echevarría & Roser Salicrú i LluchChapter 20: Comparing the French Queen Regent and the Ottoman Validé Sultan during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesReneé LangloisChapter 21: Queens and Courtesans in Japan and Early-Modern FranceTracy Adams and Iain FookesChapter 22: The Figure of the Queen Mother in the European and African Monarchies, 1400-1800Diana Pelaz Flores