Woodacre E. (ed.) Queenship in the Mediterranean: Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras

Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 302 p.This groundbreaking collection explores the key roles that Mediterranean queens played as wives, as mothers, and above all as political actors. Ranging from Byzantine empresses to regnants and consorts in the Italian peninsula, they offer a bracing new perspective on queenship in the medieval and Early Modern eras.Elena Woodacre is a specialist in Medieval and Early Modern Queenship, who completed her Ph.D. at Bath Spa University. Her recent monograph The Queens of Navarre 1274–1512; Succession, Politics and Partnership (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) is based on her doctoral research on the queens regnant of Navarre focusing particularly on issues of female succession, matrimonial diplomacy, and the power sharing dynamic between the queens and their kings consort.