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Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty

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Editors:
  1. Caroline Dunn

    1. Department of History, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA

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  2. Elizabeth Carney

    1. Department of History, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA

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  • 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

Part of the book series: Queenship and Power (QAP)

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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 dynasticloyalty throughout the ancient, medieval, and modern eras. 

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty

    • Caroline Dunn, Elizabeth Carney
    Pages 1-17

  3. King’s Daughters, Sisters, and Wives: Fonts and Conduits of Power and Legitimacy

    • Waldemar Heckel
    Pages 19-30

  4. From Family to Politics: Queen Apollonis as Agent of Dynastic/Political Loyalty

    • Dolores Mirón
    Pages 31-48

  5. Queens and Their Children: Dynastic Dis/Loyalty in the Hellenistic Period

    • Walter Duvall Penrose Jr
    Pages 49-65

  6. On the Alleged Treachery of Julia Domna and Septimius Severus’s Failed Siege of Hatra

    • Riccardo Bertolazzi
    Pages 67-86

  7. Dynasty or Family? Tenth and Eleventh Century Norwegian Royal Women and Their Dynastic Loyalties

    • Karl C. Alvestad
    Pages 87-97

  8. Prince Pedro, A Case of Dynastic Disloyalty in Fifteenth Century Portugal?

    • Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues
    Pages 99-110

  9. The Tragic Queen: Dynastic Loyalty and the ‘Queenships’ of Mary Queen of Scots

    • Charles Beem
    Pages 111-121

  10. Embodied Devotion: The Dynastic and Religious Loyalty of Renée de France (1510–1575)

    • Kelly D. Peebles
    Pages 123-137

  11. Queenship and the Currency of Arts Patronage as Propaganda at the Early Stuart Court

    • Wendy Hitchmough
    Pages 139-149

  12. Dynastic Loyalty and Allegiances: Ottoman Resilience During the Seventeenth Century Crisis

    • Reneé Langlois
    Pages 151-164

  13. For Empire or Dynasty? Empress Elisabeth Christine and the Brunswicks

    • Charlotte Backerra
    Pages 165-180

  14. French Historians’ Loyalty and Disloyalty to French Monarchy Between 1815 and 1848

    • Heta Aali
    Pages 181-190

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 191-199
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Reviews

“It is a valuable contribution to the field and should be read by both scholars and students with an interest in royal studies, queenship, and women in general.” (Estelle Paranque, Royal Studies Journal, Vol. 6 (2), 2019)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA

    Caroline Dunn, Elizabeth Carney

About the editors

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).


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty

  • Editors: Caroline Dunn, Elizabeth Carney

  • Series Title: Queenship and Power

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75877-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75876-3Published: 04 June 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09347-1Published: 24 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75877-0Published: 21 May 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2730-938X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-9398

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 199

  • Topics: European History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Women's Studies, Cultural History

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