Queens Abounding at Medieval Conferences
The spring and summer conference season is ending and once again studies on queens and queenship could be found at the Medieval Academy of America, the International Congress on Medieval Studies at...
View ArticleThe Shoes of an Infanta
I’m working on a project about Catherine of Aragon and keep coming back to one question: Why are so few people interested in her? Yes, there are plenty of biographies and I’ve read them all, both...
View ArticleQueens with child, and without
For the past two years, I’ve been working on a database that documents maternity and paternity among the royal families of medieval Europe. This fall I will work with someone far more knowledgeable...
View Article“I mistrust threads wrought by women’s fingers”
Over the summer, I read a LOT, but two books and one article have occupied a lot of space in my brain lately. They are all on rather different historical moments and problems, but they have changed...
View ArticleBeyond Exceptionalism
How many times have you been at a huge conference—the AHA, Leeds, Kalamazoo, MAA—and missed a session you really wanted to attend but couldn’t because the panels were at the same time? Plenty, I’ll...
View ArticleNew Work on Queenship
Queenship scholars have been very over the past few years, as you can see from the list below. I just updated the bibliography sections of this blog, but I am certain that I missed a few things....
View ArticleMedieval, Renaissance, or Early Modern? Does It Matter?
When I was in graduate school at Fordham, I worked as a research assistant to Nancy Stuart Rubin on a biography, Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991)...
View ArticleQueens and queenship, still a thriving field
I love this regal statue of Queen Victoria in Hyde Park, which a cheeky soul dressed up with a pair of sunglasses. It sums up why I study queens: sunglasses or not, they matter. Even when not cast in...
View ArticleA Very Busy Year for Queens and Queenship
Whew! I just updated the bibliography and it’s impressive. I’ve copied it below, broken out by category so you can skim easily. This follows the organization of the links to pages on the website, and...
View ArticleCatching up on work during a pandemic
We’ve been busy working as we masked up, locked down, and got vaccinated. There is a lot of new work to add to the bibliography, which I last updated the summer of 2019, back when we were still living...
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