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The making of a Neapolitan she -wolf : = Gender, sexuality, and sovereignty and the reputation of Johanna I of Naples.

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Title/Author:	The making of a Neapolitan she -wolf :/
Reminder of title:	Gender, sexuality, and sovereignty and the reputation of Johanna I of Naples.
Author:	Casteen, Elizabeth.
Description:	1 online resource (446 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4811.
Subject:	Medieval history. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781109527025

The making of a Neapolitan she -wolf : = Gender, sexuality, and sovereignty and the reputation of Johanna I of Naples.
Casteen, Elizabeth.

The making of a Neapolitan she -wolf :Gender, sexuality, and sovereignty and the reputation of Johanna I of Naples. - 1 online resource (446 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4811.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references

My dissertation examines the evolution of Queen Johanna I of Naples' (1326--1382) reputation. The sovereign queen of one of Europe's most significant polities and the most famous woman in Europe during her lifetime, Johanna faced numerous obstacles to her rule, including substantial contemporary opposition to the very idea of regnant queenship. She attracted ample praise and criticism. She was discussed from Sweden to England to Hungary, as well as in her own territories in southern Italy and Provence. I analyze those discussions---located in letters, chronicles, prophecies, poetry, and other media---to uncover fourteenth-century attitudes toward gender, sexuality, sovereignty, and female rulership.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781109527025Subjects--Topical Terms:

1183301
Medieval history.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

The making of a Neapolitan she -wolf : = Gender, sexuality, and sovereignty and the reputation of Johanna I of Naples.
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520 $a I track the development of Johanna's reputation over time, moving chronologically from her ascension to the period just after her death. Each of my chapters focuses on a discrete period in her reign, built around the predominant portrait of her during that time. I read her reputation against contemporary conversations about femininity, examining how both she and her detractors constructed her public image and what these constructions reveal about fourteenth-century understandings of queenship, femininity, and sovereign power. The talk centering on Johanna betrays ambiguities inherent in the concept of sovereign queenship, as of sovereignty broadly construed. Describing her career, contemporary commentators responded to its crises and scandals, as to its successes, passing judgment on Johanna as a queen and as a woman. Johanna and her apologists did the same, seeking to control the debate about her and represent her according to their own agendas. Analyzing this debate, I argue that her reign was not the unmitigated disaster it is often characterized as and that Johanna's contemporaries responded sympathetically when she was most able to control her own image. For a time, she successfully articulated a form of sovereign queenship that drew on her family's dynastic image and combined traditionally feminine modes of piety and humility with active service to the papacy. Conversely, her critics employed the well-worn terms of longstanding misogynist discourse during times of crisis, linking her perceived failures with her sex to portray her as a corrupt, debauched She-Wolf.
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