Queens and queenship in medieval Europe : proceedings of a conference held at King's College London, April 1995

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List of Illustrations vii Contributors ix Abbreviations xi Preface xiii Introduction xv Anne J. Duggan I. Queens and Empresses in the West 1 Emma: The Powers of the Queen in the Eleventh Century Pauline Stafford 3 2 Queen Margaret of Scotland (1070-1093): Burying the Past, Enshrining the Future Valerie Wall 27 3 Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France, 1193-1223 George Conklin 39 4 Late Medieval Scandinavian Queenship Steinar Imsen 53 5 From Famous Empresses to Unspectacular Queens: The Romano-German Empire to Margaret of Brabant, Countess of Luxemburg and Queen of the Romans (d. 1311) Kurt-Ulrich Jaschke 75 6 A Medieval Queen and her Stepdaughter: Agnes and Elizabeth of Hungary Volker Honemann 109 II. Image and Reality in the East 7 Goddess, Whore, Wife or Slave? Will the Real Byzantine Empress Please Stand Up? Liz James 123 8 Behind the Mask: Empresses and Empire in Middle Byzantium Dion C. Smythe 141 9 Queen or Consort: Rulership and Politics in the Latin East, 1118-1228 Sarah Lambert 153 III. Images of Queenship 10 Maria Regina: Papal Symbol Mary Stroll 173 11 Queen and Patron Diana Webb 205 12 Queens as Scapegoats in Medieval Hungary Janos M. Bak 223 13 The Image of the Queen in Old French Literature Karen Pratt 235 IV. Queens and Culture 14 The Architecture of Queenship: Royal Saints, Female Dynasties and the Spread of Gothic Architecture in Central Europe Paul Crossley 263 15 Early Medieval Rites of Queen-Making and the Shaping of Medieval Queenship Janet L. Nelson 301 16 'Never was a body buried in England with such solemnity and honour': The Burials and Posthumous Commemorations of English Queens to 1500 John Carmi Parsons 317 Index 339

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