Memorialising Premodern Monarchs

Gabrielle Storey is a historian of Angevin queenship, gender, and sexuality, with a specialism in co-rulership. She completed her doctorate at the University of Winchester, UK. She is currently working on a biography of Berengaria of Navarre, and a monograph on Angevin co-rulership. She is the founder of Team Queens, a digital global queenship project.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: The Memorialisation of Monarchs in an International Context.- Part I: Representations of Monarchs in Art and Architecture.- Chapter 2: “The Whole Stature of a Goodly Man and a Large Horse”: Memorialising Henry VIII’s Manly, Knightly and Warrior Status.- Chapter 3: Papal Commemoration, 1300–1700: Institutional Memory and Dynasticism.- Chapter 4: Island Queens: Appropriated Portraits of Royal Samoan Women.- Chapter 5: King Sigismund III Vasa’s Column in Warsaw: A Memorial in Honour of the King, A Representation of Power, and a Commemoration of the Father.- Part II: Personal or Perfunctory? Philippa of Hainault’s Legacy Through Religious Patronage and St Katharine’s by the Tower.- Chapter 6: The Heroes Who Turned Into Stones and Songs: The Memory of the Monarch Reflected in the Old Tamil Cankam Literature.- Chapter 7: Commemoration in Literature and Popular Media.- Chapter 8: Memories and Memorials of Literature and Art at the Turn of the First Millennium.- Chapter 9: Memory and Kingship in the Manuscripts of Matthew Paris.- Chapter 10: Maria Theresia and Catherine II: The Bodies of a Female Ruler in Propaganda, Criticism, and Retrospect.- Chapter 11: Mighty Lady and True Husband: Queen Margaret of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden in Norwegian Memory.- Chapter 12: Oh to be a Queen: Representations of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Isabella of Angoulême, Two Scandalous Queens, in Popular Fiction.- Chapter 13: From “She-Wolf” to “Badass”: Remembering Isabella of France in Modern Culture.