Obstacles and Opportunities for Female Power and Sovereignty

Ellie Woodacre

Obstacles and Opportunities for Female Power and Sovereignty

Ellie Woodacre

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Abstract

This piece discusses the position of female heiresses and regnant queens, examining the structural and situational factors which can either aid an heiress in coming to the throne or conversely bar her accession. While the majority of the examples here will be drawn from premodern Europe, consideration is given to global examples to give a wider perspective of the continuity of experience of female heiresses and rulers in different temporal and cultural
settings.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Geschlecht macht Herrschaft—Interdisziplinäre Studien zu vormoderner Macht und Herrschaft
Subtitle of host publication	Gender Power Sovereignty—Interdisciplinary Studies on Premodern Power
Editors	Andrea Stieldorf, Linda Dohmen, Irina Dumitrescu, Ludwig D. Morenz
Place of Publication	Göttingen
Publisher	Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht Verlage
Pages	319-340
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Print)	9783847013433
Publication status	Published - Dec 2021

Publication series

Name	Macht und Herrschaft
Publisher	Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage
Volume	015

Keywords

queenship
succession
women's history

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Woodacre, E. (2021). Obstacles and Opportunities for Female Power and Sovereignty. In A. Stieldorf, L. Dohmen, I. Dumitrescu, & L. D. Morenz (Eds.), Geschlecht macht Herrschaft—Interdisziplinäre Studien zu vormoderner Macht und Herrschaft: Gender Power Sovereignty—Interdisciplinary Studies on Premodern Power (pp. 319-340). (Macht und Herrschaft; Vol. 015). Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht Verlage.

Woodacre, Ellie. / Obstacles and Opportunities for Female Power and Sovereignty. Geschlecht macht Herrschaft—Interdisziplinäre Studien zu vormoderner Macht und Herrschaft: Gender Power Sovereignty—Interdisciplinary Studies on Premodern Power. editor / Andrea Stieldorf ; Linda Dohmen ; Irina Dumitrescu ; Ludwig D. Morenz. Göttingen : Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht Verlage, 2021. pp. 319-340 (Macht und Herrschaft).

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