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Queenship in the Mediterranean - eBook

9781137362834
1-137-36283-9

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.