Praise for Lioness Roared
"Highly readable, engaging, and enlightening.
One might even consider reading this book
purely for pleasure."
--The American Historical Review
"Charles Beem has written a stimulating series
of case-studies on female regnal power . . . his
conceptual clarity and well-crafted review of
four historiographies sheds useful light on
issues of gender and power."
--Clarissa Campbell Orr, Archives: The Journal
of the British Records Association
"The Lioness Roared is a novel and important
study of the meaning of 'kingship,' adding as
much to our appreciation of the social and
political constructs of gender as to our
understanding of the problems specific to
female rule. Other scholars have investigated
individual instances of women on the throne,
but none as comprehensively as Charles Beem’s
treatment of the rule of British queens from
Matilda to Victoria."--Howard Nenner, Smith
College
"Charles Beem examines the queens of England
and demonstrates that Elizabeth I was not the
only strong and fascinating woman to rule as
consort or regnant. With many examples from
the medieval period onward, this thoroughly
researched and beautifully written study
should find a wide and enthusiastic
readership."--Carole Levin, Willa Cather
Professor of History, University of Nebraska-
Lincoln
"Highly readable, engaging, and enlightening.
One might even consider reading this book
purely for pleasure."
--The American Historical Review
"Charles Beem has written a stimulating series
of case-studies on female regnal power . . . his
conceptual clarity and well-crafted review of
four historiographies sheds useful light on
issues of gender and power."
--Clarissa Campbell Orr, Archives: The Journal
of the British Records Association
"The Lioness Roared is a novel and important
study of the meaning of 'kingship,' adding as
much to our appreciation of the social and
political constructs of gender as to our
understanding of the problems specific to
female rule. Other scholars have investigated
individual instances of women on the throne,
but none as comprehensively as Charles Beem’s
treatment of the rule of British queens from
Matilda to Victoria."--Howard Nenner, Smith
College
"Charles Beem examines the queens of England
and demonstrates that Elizabeth I was not the
only strong and fascinating woman to rule as
consort or regnant. With many examples from
the medieval period onward, this thoroughly
researched and beautifully written study
should find a wide and enthusiastic
readership."--Carole Levin, Willa Cather
Professor of History, University of Nebraska-
Lincoln
Table of contents
Introduction: The Lioness Roared * Making a
Name for Herself: The Empress Matilda and the
Construction of Female Lordship in Twelfth
Century England * Her Kingdom's Wife: Mary I
and the Gender of Regal Power * "I Am Her
Majesty's Subject": Queen Anne, Prince George
of Denmark, and the Transformation of the
English Male Consort * "What Power Have I
Left?": Queen Victoria's Bedchamber Crisis
Revisted * Does the Lioness Still Roar?
Introduction: The Lioness Roared * Making a
Name for Herself: The Empress Matilda and the
Construction of Female Lordship in Twelfth
Century England * Her Kingdom's Wife: Mary I
and the Gender of Regal Power * "I Am Her
Majesty's Subject": Queen Anne, Prince George
of Denmark, and the Transformation of the
English Male Consort * "What Power Have I
Left?": Queen Victoria's Bedchamber Crisis
Revisted * Does the Lioness Still Roar?