For decades, medieval scholarship has been dominated by the paradigm that women who wielded power after c. 1100 were exceptions to the “rule” of female excl
This is the first major piece of scholarship to provide an overview of the lives of Sweden’s earliest documented queens, together with some of their most infl
For the first time, Sophie Harwood uses the Old French tradition as a lens through which to examine women and warfare from the 12th to the 14th centuries. The r
This volume explores a range of premodern rulers and their depictions in historiography, literature, art and material culture to gain a broader understanding of
Significant Others explores the transformative possibilities of alterity or otherness and offers concrete case studies that provide a greater understanding and