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100	1		_aΤύμβιου, Μαρίνα _4aut _9187579
245	1	4	_aThe queen Regnants Charlotte of Lusignan and Caterina Cornaro : _bthe politics of queenship and identity in Cyprus and Italy 1458-1861 / _cMarina Tymviou.
260			_aNicosia : _bCyprus Research Centre, _c2024.
300			_axvi, 375 p. : _bcolor illustrations, color portraits ; _c28 cm.
490	0		_aTexts and studies in the history of Cyprus ; _v95
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThe thesis aims to explore and analyse the identities of two queens of the Lusignan kingdom of Cyprus, Charlotte of Lusignan (1444-1487) and Caterina Cornaro (1454-1510). In Lusignan Cyprus, there was no tradition of female queens regnant before the cases of Charlotte and Caterina. Charlotte was the only legitimate daughter of the king of Cyprus Jean II and Eleni Palaeologina. Charlotte had been raised in the kingdoms by her parents to become a queen, succeeding her father de iuris. However, she and her husband Louis of Savoy lost the throne to King Jacques II, the illegitimate brother of Charlotte, who became the de facto king of the island. Jacques subsequently married Caterina Cornaro, a Venetian noble woman without the skills of ruling a kingdom. In Cyprus she was a queen consort for a year, a regent queen for a further year before her infant son died and she became a regnant queen. The thesis is organised into three main parts. Part I is the foundation for the subsequent two, focusing on the years that Charlotte and Caterina were queens regnant in Cyprus and their subsequent exiles. Charlotte and Caterina as queens regnant and exiled queens in the fifteenth century serve as important case studies in a wider context of gender studies and queenship in early modern Europe. In this comparative study, they are systematically analysed in parallel for the first time. Part II explores the long diplomatic battle between Savoy and Venice for the royal crown of Cyprus, reflecting on the new dimensions of the two queens’ identities after their deaths. Part III investigates the iconographies of the two queens in parallel across a long timeframe until the nineteenth century. The range and variation of the sources is considerable, encompassing historical sources and recollections like chronicles, biographies, poems, literature, operas and visual sources, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. All these sources are cross-examined and cross-analysed with an explanation of the political background during the period of time they were created. Quite how these constructed images differed from the historical queens will comprise the core of this section.
600	0	0	_aCharlotte, _cof Savoy, Queen, consort of Louis XI, King of France, _dapproximately 1442-1483 _9187584
600	1	0	_aCaterina Cornaro, _cQueen of Cyprus _d1454-1510 _9106020
650		0	_aQueens _zCyprus _xBiography _9108014
651		0	_aCyprus _xHistory _yLusignan dynasty, 1192-1474 _9177534
651		0	_aCyprus _xHistory _xVenetian rule _y1474-1570 _9177549
710	2		_aΚύπρος. _bΥπουργείο Παιδείας, Πολιτισμού, Αθλητισμού και Νεολαίας (ΥΠΠΑΝ) _bΚέντρο Επιστημονικών Ερευνών (ΚΕΕ) _9187585
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