Table of Contents

`The Empress Judith and Carolingian Queenship'. - Elizabeth Ward
`The Politics of Succession in the Latin East, 1100-1197'. -
`Early Rituals of Queen-Making and the Making of Queenship'. - -
Introduction - Anne J. Duggan
Emma: the powers of the queen in the eleventh century - Pauline Stafford
Queen Margaret of Scotland (1070-1093): burying the past, enshrining the future - Valerie Wall
Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France, 1193-1223 - George Conklin
Late medieval Scandinavian Queenship - Steinar Imsen
From famous empresses to unspectacular queens: the Romano-German empire to Margaret of Brabant, Countess of Luxemburg and Queen of the Romans (d. 1311)the Romans (d. 1311) - Kurt-Ulrich Jäschke
A medieval queen and her stepdaughter: Agnes and Elizabeth of Hungary - Volker Honemann
Goddess, whore, wife or slave? Will the real byzantine empress please stand up? - Liz James
Behind the mask: empresses and empire in middle byzantium'. - Dion Smythe
Queen or consort: rulership and politics in the latin east 1118-1228 - Sarah Lambert
Maria Regina: papal symbol - Mary Stroll ***
Queen and patron - Diana Webb
Queens as scapegoats in medieval Hungary - Janos Bak
The image of the queen in old French literature - Karen Pratt
The architecture of queenship: royal saints, female dynasties and the spread of gothic architecture in central Europe - Paul Crossley
Early medieval rites of queen-making and the shaping of medieval queenship - Janet L Nelson
`Never was a body buried in England with such solemnity and honour': the burials and posthumous commemorations of english queens to 1500queens to 1500 - John C Parsons

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