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Visiting Medieval Fellow, Center for Medieval Studies
About
My main research interest is medieval queenship, and my other research interests lie, more generally, in the areas of medieval women and gender studies, political culture, administrative history, and the construction of power and authority.
I am currently turning my PhD thesis, which was completed in September 2009, into a monograph for Palgrave Macmillan, entitled "Three Medieval Queens: Queenship and the Crown in Plantagenet England". This study focuses on three medieval English queens: Margaret of France, Isabella of France and Philippa of Hainault and takes advantage of a period of continuous transition between queens; a period particularly exciting for queenship studies because an analysis of these queens’ activities provides a unique opportunity to form conclusions about normative queenly behaviour, and to determine the extent to which their activities depended on circumstance and inclination. Studying the behaviour of three queens, who lived simultaneously in the same geographical area, helps scholars define a concept of queenship, at least for the fourteenth century, which then can be contrasted with similar periods in earlier and later centuries. My study utilizes administrative, visual and literary sources, and frames its examination of queenship around four major themes: gender; status; the concept of the crown; and power and authority. Through these themes it explores the relationship between an ideology of queenship and the historical actions of three fourteenth-century queens.
Three Medieval Queens: Queenship and the Crown in Fourteenth-Century England (Palgrave, June 2012)
