Female Monarchs in the Medieval Byzantine Court: Prejudice, Disbelief, and Calumnies

Abstract

Papers from a conference Kings & Queens: Power, Politics, Patronage and Personalites held at Corsham Court in conjunction with Bath Spa University in April 2012. Women monarchs in the medieval byzantine court : prejudice, disbelief and calumnies / Alexandra Karagianni -- To have and have not : the dower of Joanna Plantagenet, Queen of Sicily (1177-1189) / Colette Bowie -- The many wills of Violante de Aragon as testament to uncertainty in thirteenth-century Castilla-Leon / Melissa R. Katz -- Lost and found : visualizing a medieval queen's destroyed objects and collection / Mariah Proctor-Tiffany -- The political role of a Portuguese Queen in late fourteenth century / Isabel de Pina Baleiras -- Philippa of Lancaster : the memory of a model queen / Ana Rodrigues Oliveira -- Not lost in translation : Aragonese court culture "on tour" (1400-1480) / Zita Rohr -- Queenly time in the reign of Juan II of Castile (1406-1454) / Diana Pelaz Flores -- Princess Isabel of Portugal : "First Lady" in a kingdom without a queen (1415-1428) / Manuela Santos Silva -- Blanca, Queen of Sicily and Queen of Navarre : connecting the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean via an Aragonese alliance / Elena Woodacre -- Consorts of Moroccan sultans : Lalla Khnata Bint Bakkar, "a woman with three kings" / Fatima Rhorchi -- The sovereign and his wife "minister" : Charles Emmanuel IV and Marie Clotilde Adelaide Xaviere of France : interpersonal and political relations between the sovereigns of Sardinia / Federica Contu -- Queenship and family dynamics through the correspondence of the Queen Maria Carolina of Naples / Cinzia Recca.