This groundbreaking collection explores the key roles that Mediterranean queens played as wives, as mothers, and above all as political actors. Ranging from Byzantine empresses to regnants and consorts in the Italian peninsula, they offer a bracing new perspective on queenship in the medieval and Early Modern eras.

Zita Rohr, University of Sydney, Australia Ana Rodrigues Oliviera, University of Lisbon-Nova, Portugal Manuela Santos Silva, University of Lisbon, Portugal Alexandra Karagianni, University Western Macedonia, Republic of Macedonia Isabel de Pina Baleiras, Lisbon University, Portugal Federica Contu, University of Cagliari, Italy Cinzia Recca, Catania, Italy Diana Pelaz Flores, University of Valladolid, Spain Melissa R. Katz, University of Exeter, UK Mariah Proctor-Tiffany, Rhode Island School of Design, UK Colette Bowie, University of Glasgow, UK Fatima Rhorchi, University Moulay Ismail-Meknes, Morocco