Document Type
Article
Peer Reviewed
1
DOI
10.17077/1536-8742.2044
Abstract
Current research on queens exposes the biased weaknesses in much of the scholarly work on monarchy and reveals that queens were hardly exceptional. By examining monarchy as a family affair, rather than that of a man alone on the throne, it is clear that queens and noblewomen were fundamental to the operations of monarchy. Taking this meta-discourse of monarchy into account reveals a complex network of affiliations that were obscured by generations of scholars who focused only the deeds of men and thus regarded a woman in power as exceptional.
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Copyright © 2016 Theresa Earenfight
Recommended Citation
Earenfight, Theresa "Where Do We Go From Here? Some Thoughts on Power and Gender in the Middle Ages." Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality 51, No. 2 (2016) : 116-131.
