This study explores representations of the Madonna and Child in early modern culture. It considers the mother and son as a conceptual, religio-political unit an

This study explores representations of the Madonna and Child in early modern culture. It considers the mother and son as a conceptual, religio-political unit an

Queens of Poland are conspicuously absent from the study of European queenship—an absence which, together with early modern Poland’s marginal place in the h

Of Shakespeare’s thirty-seven plays, fifteen include queens. This collection gives these characters their due as powerful early modern women and agents of cha

The essays in this book traverse two centuries of queens and their afterlives—historical, mythological, and literary. They speak of the significant and subtle