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

Zita Eva Rohr is a Research Associate and Tutor attached to the Department of History at the University of Sydney, Australia. Lisa Benz completed her PhD in history at the University of York, UK She is the author of Three Medieval Queens: Queenship and the Crown in Fourteenth-Century England (Palgrave, 2012).

• Introduction: Queenship, Reputation and Gender in the Medieval and Early Modern West 1060-1600 Zita Rohr and Lisa Benz St John.- Part One: Biography, Gossip and History.- 1. Lifestyles of the Rich and (in) Animate: Object Biography and the Reliquary Cross of Queen Adelaide of Hungary Christopher Mielke.- 2. Gender, Reputation, and Female Rule in the World of Brantôme Tracy Adams.- 3. True Lies and Strange Mirrors: the Uses and Abuses of Rumor, Propaganda and Innuendo during the closing stages of the Hundred Years War Zita Rohr.- 4. Etienne Pasquier on French History and Female Strategies of Power James Dahlinger.- Part Two: Politics, Ambition and Scandal.- 5. The Unruly Queen: Blanche of Namur and Dysfunctional Rulership in Medieval Sweden Christine Ekholst with Henric Bagerius.- 6. Conspiracy and Alienation: Queen Margaret of France and Piers Gaveston, the King's Favorite Lisa Benz.- 7. Isabeau of Bavaria, Queen of France: Queenship and Political Authority as ‘Lieutenante-Générale’ of the Realm Rachel C. Gibbons.- 8. Leonor of Navarre: The Price of Ambition Elena Woodacre.