Essay Collections on Queens and Queenship

Beem, Charles and Dennis Moore, eds. The Name of a Queen: William Fleetwood’s Itinerarium ad Windsor  (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Bertolet, Anna Rielh (ed.). Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Boruchoff, D. (ed.), Isabel la Católica, Queen of Castile: Critical Essays (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).

Brown, C. J. (ed.), The Cultural and Political Legacy of Anne de Bretagne: Negotiating Convention in Books and Documents (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010).

Carpenter, J. and S. B. MacLean (eds), The Power of the Weak: Studies on Medieval Women (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995).

Cernadas Martínas, Silvia and Miguel Gracía-Fernández, eds. Reinas e infantas en los reinos medievales iberícos. Santiago de Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 2018.

Chapman Hamilton, Tracy and Mariah Proctor-Tiffany (eds). Moving Women, Moving Objects (400–1500). Leiden: Brill, 2019.

Cruz, A. and M. Suzuki (eds), The Rule of Women in Early Modern Europe (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009).

Davids, A. (ed.), The Empress Theophano: Byzantium and the West at the Turn of the First Millennium (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Duggan, A. J. (ed.), Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1997).

Duncan, Sarah, and Valerie Schutte, eds. The Birth of a Queen: Essays on the Quincentenary of Mary I (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Earenfight, T. (ed.), Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005).

Earenfight, T. (ed.). Royal and Elite Households in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: More Than Just a Castle. Leiden: Brill, 2018.

Erler, M. and M. Kowaleski (eds), Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988).

———, Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003).

Fleiner, C. and E. Woodacre (eds). Virtuous or Villainess? The Image of the Royal Mother from the Early Medieval to the Early Modern Era (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Fradenburg, L. O. (ed.), Women and Sovereignty (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 1991).

Kallendorf, Hilaire (ed.). A Companion to the Queenship of Isabel la Católica. Leiden: Brill, 2022.

Kibler, W. W. (ed.), Eleanor of Aquitaine: Patron and Politician (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1976).

Levin, Carole (ed.), Elizabeth I: Always Her Own Free Woman (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003).

Levin, C. and R. Bucholz (eds), Queens & Power in Medieval and Early Modern England (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009).

Levin, Carole, D. B. Graves, J. E. Carney, (eds), High and Mighty Queens of Early Modern England: Realities and Representations. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).

Levin, Carole and C. Stewart-Nuñez (eds.). Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Nolan, Kathleen. (ed.), Capetian Women (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).

Norrie, Aidan, Carolyn Harris, Joanna L. Laynesmith, Danna R. Messer, and Elena Woodacre (eds). Norman to Early Plantagenet Consorts. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

Norrie, Aidan, Carolyn Harris, Joanna L. Laynesmith, Danna R. Messer, and Elena Woodacre (eds). Tudor and Stuart Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

Oakley-Brown, L. and L. J. Wilkinson (eds), The Rituals and Rhetoric of Queenship: Medieval to Early Modern (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009).

Paranque, Estelle (ed.). Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France: Reputation, Reinterpretation, and Reincarnation. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Paranque, Estelle, Nate Probasco, and Claire Jowitt, eds. Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe: The Roles of Powerful Women and Queens. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Parsons, J. C. (ed.), Medieval Queenship (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993).

Rohr, Zita and Lisa Benz (eds). Queenship, Gender, and Reputation in the Medieval and Early Modern West, 1060-1600 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Sarti, Cathleen (ed.). Women and Economic Power in Premodern Royal Courts. Amsterdam: Arc Humanities Press, 2020.

Schutte, Valerie, ed. Unexpected Heirs in Early Modern Europe: Potential Kings and Queens (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

Schutte, Valerie and Jessica S. Hower (eds). Mary I in Writing: Letters, Literature, and Representation. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2022.

Schutte, Valerie and Jessica S. Hower (eds). Writing Mary I: History, Historiography, and Fiction. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2022.

Storey, Gabrielle, ed. Memorialising Premodern Monarchs: Medias of Commemoration and Remembrance. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

Vann, T. M., (ed.), Queens, Regents, and Potentates (Denton, TX: Academia Press, 1993).

Weissberger, B. (ed.), Queen Isabel I of Castile: Power, Patronage, Persona (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2008).

Wheeler, B. and J. C. Parsons (eds), Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).

Woodacre, E. (ed.). Queenship in the Mediterranean: Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Woodacre, Elena (ed.) A Companion to Global Queenship. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press. 2018.

Woodacre, Elena, Lucinda H. S. Dean, Chris Jones, Russel E. Martin and Zita Eva Rohr (eds). The Routledge History of Monarchy. London: Routledge, 2019.

Woodacre, E. and C. Fleiner (eds).  Royal Mothers and Their Ruling Children: Wielding Political Authority from Antiquity to the Early Modern Era (Basingstoke: Plagrave Macmillan, 2015).

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