Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 45961
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Hernando del Pulgar , , and Theophanes the Confessor,
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  • Title: Women in Power [a. Empress Irene, b. and c. Sitt al-Mulk, d and e. Isabel I]
  • Source: Texts from the Middle: Documents from the Mediterranean World, 650–1650.  Edited by Thomas E. Burman, Brian A. Catlos and Mark D. Meyerson.  University of California Press, 2022.  Pages 210 - 213.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Empresses Politics Power Queens Regents Rulers
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  • Geographic Area: Eastern Mediterranean ; Iberia
  • Century: 9, 12, 15
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  • Related Resources: The first text is from The Chronicle of Theophanes: An English Translation of Anni Mundi 6095-6305 (A.D. 602-813), trans. Harry Turtledove (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982), pp. 140, 146-47. The second and third texts are from Taef El-Azhari, Queens, Eunuchs, and Concubines in Islamic History, 661-1257 (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), pp. 202-3. The fourth and fifth texts are from David A. Boruchoff, "Historiography with License: Isabel, the Catholic Monarch, and the Kingdom of God" in Isabel la Católica, Queen of Castile: Critical Essays, ed. David A. Boruchoff (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) pp. 241-42, 247.
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  • Year of Publication: 2022.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9780520296534