Virtuous or villainess? : the image of the royal mother from the early medieval to the early modern era - Fleiner, Carey, 1965-; Woodacre, Elena (New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Fashioning the Image of the "Good" and "Bad" Royal Mother -- Empress Theodora: A Holy Mother / Kriszta Kotsis -- "Mother of Heroes, Most Beautiful of Mothers": Mathilda of Flanders and Royal Motherhood in the Eleventh Century / Laura L. Gathagan -- A Mother and Her Illustrious Offspring: The Role of Philippa of Lancaster, Queen of Portugal, in Her Children's Education (1387--1415) / Manuela Santos Silva -- "Greatest in Her Offspring": Motherhood and the Empress Matilda / Charles Beem -- Maternal Abandonment and Surrogate Caregivers: Isabella of Angouleme and Her Children by King John / Louise J. Wilkinson -- The Perils of Promotion: Maternal Ambition and Sacrifice in the Life of Joan of Navarre, Duchess of Brittany, and Queen of England / Elena Woodacre -- pt. II The Legacy and Reputation of Royal Mothers-from Their Contemporaries to the Present Day -- "Margaret R": Lady Margaret Beaufort's Self-fashioning and Female Ambition / Sally Fisher -- Playing the Catalan: The Rise of the Chess Queen; Queenship and Political Motherhood in Late Medieval Aragon and France / Zita Rohr -- Outlander, Baby Killer, Poisoner? Rethinking Bona Sforza's Black Legend / Katarzyna Kosior -- The Empress Matilda and Motherhood in Popular Fiction, 1970s to the Present / Katherine Weikert.
Keywords: Queens -- Europe -- History -- Case studies