To browse Academia. This paper explores the multidisciplinary field of Medieval Studies, focusing on queens and queenship with a particular emphasis on income and power dynamics. It outlines current knowledge regarding the wealth, income, finances, and political roles of medieval queens, while also addressing gaps in existing research and proposing future directions for inquiry, particularly through the lens of Hungarian examples. It argues that the monetary situation of queens serves as a crucial link between personal influence and political authority, reflecting their significant contributions to arts and patronage.
This series focuses on works specializing in gender analysis, women's studies, literary interpretation, and cultural, political, constitutional, and diplomatic history. It aims to broaden our understanding of the strategies that queensboth consorts and regnants, as well as female regents-pursued in order to wield political power within the structures of male-dominant societies. The works describe queenship in Europe as well as many other parts of the world, including East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Islamic civilization.
This thesis compares the functions of queen-making and the concepts of queenship in Anglo-Saxon England and West Francia in the early medieval period. The urge to inaugurate the king's wife ritually to her position, in particular to anoint her as part of a rite of passage, seems to have arisen among the two peoples at more or less the same time. The present work assesses the significance of queen-making for both peoples, the possible exchange of coronation orders ordines], and any cross-Channel influence which may have created conditions in which developments occurred.
It addresses such questions as whether a concept of queenship existed, whether queenship was regarded as an office, and if there was any interdependence between queen-making rites and concepts of queenship. The work follows the chronological development of queen-making rites, surveying the entire early medieval period, from the conversions of both peoples to the late eleventh centuiy.
It takes as its starting point the period when a woman became a queen simply by virtue of the fact of her marriage with a king.
