Essay question: Discuss the accession of 3 regnant queenswou…

Focus is on medieval queenship.

The three queens to use are:

-Blanca I of Navarre (1425-1441) , Queen Melisende of Jerusalem (1131-1152) and Wu Zeitan of China (690-705)

-Secondary sources to use are:

-Earenfight, Theresa. Queenship in Medieval Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. [physical secondary source]

Erin Jordans, Corporate Monarchy in the Twelfth-Century Kingdom of Jerusalem; Royal Studies Journal VI, 2019

Woodacre, Elena, ed. A Companion to Global Queenship. New edition. Kalamazoo: Arc Humanities Press, 2018.

Woodacre, Elena. The Queens Regnant of Navarre : Succession, Politics, and Partnership, 1274-1512. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

-Folda, Jaroslav. Images of Queen Melisende in Manuscripts of William of Tyres History of Outremer: 1250-1300. Gesta 32, no. 2 (1993): 97112. .

Baker, Derek, Rosalind M. T Hill, and Ecclesiastical History Society. Medieval Women. Oxford: Published for the Ecclesiastical History Society by Basil Blackwell, 1978.

Jonathan Clements 2014 Wu : the Chinese Empress who schemed, seduced and murdered her way to become a living God.

Primary source to use are:

-William of Tyre History of Deeds Beyond the Sea Vol.2

-Fulchers of Charters, The Latins in the East (Chronicle III)

Very important instructions

-The referencing system that must be used is Chicago 8th edition (notes and bibliography)

-the footnotes must appear in order at the bottom of each page and the bibliography at the end of the essay must be the same