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To avoid stumbling into anachronism and wandering into the realms of subjective irrelevance, queenship research requires careful contextualization. I have striven to do this in the light of constantly evolving feminist, women’s, and gender history studies—endeavoring to apply a critical (but never cynical) eye to postmodern intellectual constructs that do not always stand up to objective scrutiny when examining complex issues of gender and the theme of women and power in the medieval and early modern periods.
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Rohr, Z.E. (2016). Introduction. In: Yolande of Aragon (1381–1442) Family and Power. Queenship and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137499134_1
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