Contents

pp v-vii

List of Illustrations

pp viii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-ix

Contributors

pp ix-xii

Chapter 1 - Introduction: Placing Queenship into a Global Context

pp 1-10

Part I - Perceptions of Regnant Queenship

pp 11-12

Chapter 2 - When the Emperor Is a Woman: The Case of Wu Zetian 武則天 (624– 705), the “Emulator of Heaven”

pp 13-26

Chapter 3 - Tamar of Georgia (1184– 1213) and the Language of Female Power

pp 27-38

Chapter 4 - Regnant Queenship and Royal Marriage between the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Nobility of Western Europe

pp 39-52

Chapter 5 - Queenship and Female Authority in the Sultanate of Delhi (1206– 1526)

pp 53-66

Chapter 6 - Anna Jagiellon: A Female Political Figure in the Early Modern Polish– Lithuanian Commonwealth

pp 67-78

Chapter 7 - Female Rule in Imperial Russia: Is Gender a Useful Category of Historical Analysis?

pp 79-94

Chapter 8 - The Transformation of an Island Queen: Queen Béti of Madagascar

pp 95-108

Chapter9 - Female Rangatira in Aotearoa New Zealand

pp 109-122

Part II - Practising Co-Rulership

pp 123-124

Chapter 10 - The Social–Political Roles of the Princess in Kyivan Rus’, ca. 945– 1240

pp 125-146

Chapter 11 - Impressions of Welsh Queenship in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

pp 147-158

Chapter 12 - Queen Zaynab al-​Nafzawiyya and the Building of a Mediterranean Empire in the Eleventh-​Century Maghreb

pp 159-170

Chapter 13 - Al-​Dalfa’ and the Political Role of the umm al-walad in the Late Umayyad Caliphate of al-​Andalus

pp 171-182

Chapter 14 - The Khitan Empress Dowagers Yingtian and Chengtian in Liao China, 907– 1125

pp 183-194

Chapter 15 - Dowager Queens and Royal Succession in Premodern Korea

pp 195-208

Chapter 16 - The Ambiguities of Female Rule in Nayaka South India, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries

pp 209-230

Part III - Breaking Down Boundaries: Comparative Studies of Queenship

pp 231-232

Chapter 17 - Helena’s Heirs: Two Eighth-​Century Queens

pp 233-244

Chapter 18 - The Hohenstaufen Women and the Differences between Aragonese and Greek Queenship Models

pp 245-254

Chapter 19 - The “Honourable Ladies” of Nasrid Granada: Female Power and Agency in the Alhambra (1400– 1450)

pp 255-270

Chapter 20 - Comparing the French Queen Regent and the Ottoman Validé Sultan during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

pp 271-284

Chapter 21 - Queens and Courtesans in Japan and Early Modern France

pp 285-298

Chapter 22 - The Figure of the Queen Mother in the European and African Monarchies, 1400– 1800

pp 299-308