Zita E. ROHR

Sydney, AUSTRALIE * zita.rohr@mq.edu.au

Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University (Sydney) ; chevalier dans les palmes académiques, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society * Histoire * XIVe-XVIe siècles

Politique et diplomatie genrées ; régences ; lieutenances et vice-royautés
féminines ; favoris (hommes et femmes) ; conseillers (hommes et femmes) ; masculinités et
féminités ; femmes et pouvoir dans le monde prémoderne ; réseaux aristocratiques, élitaires et
royaux ; patronage ; genrisation des cours européennes et scénographie du pouvoir.

OUVRAGES

– à paraître, Anne of France and her Family, (1325-1522): A Genealogy of Premodern Female
Power and Influence
. Cham CH: Palgrave Macmillan.
– à paraître (avec Gabrielle Storey), Premodern Ruling Sexualities: Representations, Identity, and Power. Manchester, Manchester University Press.
– (avec Jonathan Spangler, dir.) Significant Others: Aspects of Deviance and Difference in Premodern Court Cultures. Abington UK, Routledge, 2022.
– (avec Lisa Benz, dir.) Queenship and the Women of Westeros: Female Agency, and the Role of Advice in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire. Cham CH, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
– (avec Lisa Benz, dir.), Queenship, Gender and Reputation in the Medieval and Early Modern West, 1060- 1600, Cham, CH: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Yolande of Aragon (1381-1442), Family and Power: The Reverse of the Tapestry. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

ARTICLES

“From Mignonnes to Mesdames: The Rise of the Female Royal Favourite in Late Medieval and Early Modern France”, Special Issue: “Queenship and Power”, in Parergon. The Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 39.1, (2022), p. 155-189.
-“No Job for a Man: Fifteenth-Century France and the ‘Institutionalization’ of Female Regency”, in Tracy Adams and Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier (dir.), The Waxing of the Middle Ages: Revisiting Late Medieval France, Newark, DE, The University of Delaware Press, 2023.
– (avec Jonathan W. Spangler), “Introduction. Significant Others: Aspects of Deviance and Difference in Premodern Court Cultures – Tales of the Unexpected?”, in Zita Eva Rohr & Jonathan W. Spangler (dir.), Significant Others: Aspects of Deviance and Difference in Premodern Court Cultures, Abington UK, Routledge, 2022, p. 1-26.
– (avec Lisa Benz), “Introduction. Cherchez les femmes: Queenship and the Women of Westeros”, in Zita Eva Rohr & Lisa Benz (dir.), Queenship and the Women of Westeros: Female Agency, and the Role of Advice in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire, Cham CH, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, p. xxix- lxxiv.
– “Exercising authority and exerting influence: Introduction”, in ”, in Elena Woodacre, Lucinda Dean, Chris Jones, Russell Martin, and Zita Rohr (dir.), The Routledge History of Monarchy: New Perspectives on Rulers and Rulership, Abingdon, UK Routledge, 2019, p. 597-606.
– “Rocking the Cradle and Ruling the World: Queens’ Households in Late Medieval and Early Modern Aragon and France”, in Theresa Earenfight (dir.), Elite and Royal Households in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (c. 800-c. 1600), Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018, p. 309-337.
– (avec Lisa Benz), “Introduction”, Queenship, Gender and Reputation in the Medieval and Early Modern West, 1060-1600, Cham CH: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, p. xvii-xliv.
– “True Lies and Strange Mirrors: The uses and abuses of rumor, propaganda and innuendo during the closing stages of the Hundred Years War” in Zita Eva Rohr and Lisa Benz (dir.), Queenship, Reputation and Gendered Power in the Medieval and Early Modern West, Cham CH: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, p. 79-104.
– “Playing the Catalan: The Rise of the Chess-Queen; Queenship and Political Motherhood in Late Medieval Aragon and France”, in Elena Woodacre and Carey Fleiner (dir.), Motherhood, Authority and Ambition II: Defining and Redefining the Image of the ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Mother, New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, p. 173-197.
– “On the Road Again: The Semi-Nomadic career of Yolande of Aragon (1400-1439),” in Felicitas Schmieder & Marianne O’Doherty (dir.), Travel and Exploration From the Atlantic to the Black Sea, Turnhout: Brepols, 2015, p. 215-244.
– “Lessons for my Daughter: Self-fashioning Stateswomanship in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon” in Laura Delbrugge (dir.), Self-fashioning and Assumptions of Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, Leiden & Boston: Brill Press, 2015, p. 46-78.
– “The Practice of Political Motherhood in Late Medieval France: Yolande of Aragon, Bonne- Mère of France”, in Sean McGlynn and Elena Woodacre (dir.), Image, Perception and Monarchy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, p. 23-47.
– “Not Lost in Translation: Aragonese Court Culture on Tour (1400-1480)”, in Elena Woodacre (dir.), Queenship in the Mediterranean, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, p. 145-168.
– “Lifting the Tapestry: The Designs of Yolande of Aragon (1381-1442)” in Anthony McElligott, Liam Chambers, Ciara Breathnach and Catherine Lawless (dir.), Power in History: From Medieval Ireland to the Post-Modern World, Dublin & Portland OR: Irish Academic Press 2011, p. 145-166.