This study examines representations of early modern female consorts and regnants via extra-literary emblematics such as paintings, jewelry, miniature portraits, carvings, placards, masques, funerary monuments, and imprese.

Autorentext
Liana de Girolamoi Cheney, University of Massachusetts, USA Cassandra Auble, West Virginia University, USA Brandie R. Siegfried, Brigham Young University, USA Catherine Loomis, University of New Orleans, USA Marguerite A. Tassi, University of Nebraska-Kearney, USA Effie Botonaki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece John T. Cull, College of the Holy Cross, USA Antonio Bernat Vistarini, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain

Inhalt
Extra-Literary Emblematics; Debra Barrett-Graves 1. Caterina Cornaro Queen of Cyprus; Liana Cheney Girolami 2. Bejewled Majesty: Queen Elizabeth I, Precious Stones and Statecraft; Cassandra Auble 3. 'Bear your body more seeming': Open-Kneed Portraits of Elizabeth I; Catherine Loomis 4. Mermaids, Sirens, and Mary Queen of Scots: Icons of Wantonness and Pride; Debra Barrett-Graves 5. Martyrdom and Memory: Elizabeth Curle's Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots; Marguerite A. Tassi 6. Anne of Denmark and the Court Masque: Displaying and Authoring Queenship; Effie Botonaki 7. 'A Lily Among Thorns': The Emblematic Eclipse of Spain's María Lusa de Orleáns in the Hieroglyphs of her Funeral Exequies; Antonio Bernat Vistarini and John T. Cull Afterward; John Watkins