Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty

Caroline Dunn teaches history at Clemson University, USA, and is the author of Stolen Women in Medieval England: Rape, Abduction, and Adultery c. 1100–1500 (2012).Elizabeth Carney is Professor of History and Carol K. Brown Scholar in Humanities, Emerita, at Clemson University, USA. Her most recent book is King and Court in Ancient Macedonia: Rivalry, Treason and Conspiracy (2015).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Kings’ Daughters, Sisters, and Wives: Fonts and Conduits of Power and Legitimacy.- 3. From Family to Politics: Queen Apollonis as Agent of Dynastic/Political Loyalty.- 4. Queens and their Children: Dynastic Dis/loyalty in the Hellenistic Period.- 5. On the Alleged Treachery of Julia Domna and Septimius Severus’ Failed Siege of Hatra.- 6. “In Protection of Our Own Interests We Rebel.”.- 7. Prince Pedro: A Case of Dynastic Disloyalty in 15th century Portugal?.- 8. Dynastic Loyalty and the 'Queenships' of Mary Queen of Scots.- 9. Embodied Devotion: The Dynastic and Religious Loyalty of Renée de France (1510-1575).- 10. Visual Propaganda and Ritual at the Early Stuart Court in England.- 11. Dynastic Loyalty and Allegiances: Ottoman Resilience during the Global Seventeenth Century Crisis.- 12. For Empire or Dynasty? Empress Elisabeth Christine and the Brunswicks.- 13. French Historians’ Loyalty and Disloyalty to French Monarchy between 1815 and 1848.

“It is a valuable contribution to the field and should be read by both scholars and students with an interest in royal studies, queenship, and women in general.” (Estelle Paranque, Royal Studies Journal, Vol. 6 (2), 2019)