Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty
Editors: Dunn, Caroline, Carney, Elizabeth (Eds.)
Free Preview- Examines the ways in which royal women directly and indirectly shaped dynastic loyalty and disloyalty
- Covers a broad chronological scope, from antiquity to the early modern era
- Features a wide range of European and non-European dynasties
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- About this book
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Royal women did much more to wield power besides marrying the king and producing the heir. Subverting the dichotomies of public/private and formal/informal that gender public authority as male and informal authority as female, this book examines royal women as agents of influence. With an expansive chronological and geographic scope—from ancient to early modern and covering Egypt, Great Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and Asia Minor—these essays trace patterns of influence often disguised by narrower studies of government studies and officials. Contributors highlight the theme of dynastic loyalty by focusing on the roles and actions of individual royal women, examining patterns within dynasties, and considering what factors generated loyalty and disloyalty to a dynasty or individual ruler. Contributors show that whether serving as the font of dynastic authority or playing informal roles of child-bearer, patron, or religious promoter, royal women have been central to the issue of dynastic loyalty throughout the ancient, medieval, and modern eras.
- About the authors
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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).
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction: Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty
Pages 1-17
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King’s Daughters, Sisters, and Wives: Fonts and Conduits of Power and Legitimacy
Pages 19-30
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From Family to Politics: Queen Apollonis as Agent of Dynastic/Political Loyalty
Pages 31-48
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Queens and Their Children: Dynastic Dis/Loyalty in the Hellenistic Period
Pages 49-65
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On the Alleged Treachery of Julia Domna and Septimius Severus’s Failed Siege of Hatra
Pages 67-86
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty
- Editors
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- Caroline Dunn
- Elizabeth Carney
- Series Title
- Queenship and Power
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-75877-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-75877-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-75876-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-09347-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 199
- Topics
