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Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens
\"Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens is a lively and erudite collection, unusual in an especially appealing way: not only are there essays about a range of queens and how they were represented in the Middle Ages and Renaissance through primary accounts, chronicles, and literary representations, but the book also contains modern poetry and short plays about these same queens, allowing readers to understand and appreciate them both intellectually and emotionally. Queens include such famous and fascinating women as Hecuba, Cleopatra, the Empress Matilda, Margaret of Anjou, Catherine of Aragon, Mary Stuart, and Queen Elizabeth I, and Grace O'Malley, a pirate queen. One can find, for example, an essay on Mary Stuart's responses to her widowhoods paired with Mary's lamentation from the afterlife. After reading the analysis of the Empress Matilda's efforts to gain the throne of England, one can also see the character of the much older Matilda playing chess with her daughter-in-law Eleanor of Aquitaine\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Material Culture and Queenship in 14th-century France
In Material Culture and Queenship in 14th-century France Marguerite Keane analyzes the artistic and devotional context of the household of a medieval queen, Blanche of Navarre (1331-1398), as revealed through the evidence of her testaments of 1396 and 1398.
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Diet and nutritional status during early adult life have immediate and persistent effects on queen bumble bees
Many insects sequester nutrients during developmentally programmed periods, which they metabolize during subsequent life history stages. During these periods, failure to store adequate nutrients can have persistent effects on fitness. Here, we examined a critical but under-studied nutrient storage period in queen bumble bees: the first days of adult life, which are followed by a diapause period typically coinciding with winter. We experimentally manipulated availability of pollen (the primary dietary source of lipids and protein) and the sugar concentration of artificial nectar (the primary source of carbohydrates) for laboratory-reared queens during this period and examined three nutritional phenomena: (i) diet impacts on nutritional status, (ii) the timescale upon which nutrient sequestration occurs and (iii) the fitness consequences of nutrient sequestration, specifically related to survival across the life cycle. We found evidence that pollen and nectar starvation negatively impact lipid storage, whereas nectar sugar concentration impacts stored carbohydrates. The majority of nutrients were stored during the first ~ 3 days of adult life. Nutrients derived from pollen during this period appear to be more critical for surviving earlier life stages, whereas nutrients sequestered from nectar become more important for surviving the diapause and post-diapause periods. Negative impacts of a poor diet during early life persisted in our experiment, even when pollen and a relatively high (50%) nectar sugar concentration were provided post-diapause. Based on these findings, we posit that the nutritional environment during the early adult life of queens has both immediate and persistent impacts on fitness. These findings underscore the importance of examining effects of stage-specific nutritional limitations on physiology and life history traits in this social insect group. Moreover, the findings may shed light on how declining food resources are contributing to the decline of wild bumble bee populations.
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Counting one's blessings : the selected letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
\"Shawcross has put together a selection of [the Queen Mother's] letters, drawing on the vast wealth of material in the Royal Archives and at Glamis Castle.\"--Jacket flap.
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Pharaoh: Creative and critical thinking at the NGV
Historical objects on display in the National Gallery of Victoria's upcoming exhibition Pharaoh offer students the opportunity to extend their critical and creative thinking skills through object-based learning.
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Queenship and Sanctity
Queenship and Sanctity brings together for the first time in English the anonymous Lives of Mathilda and Odilo of Cluny's Epitaph of Adelheid. Richly annotated, with an extensive introduction placing the texts and their subjects in historical and hagiographical context, it provides teachers and students with a crucial set of sources for the history of Europe (particularly Germany) in the tenth and eleventh centuries, for the development of sacred biography and medieval notions of sanctity, and for the life of aristocratic and royal women in the early Middle Ages.
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Personal Religion During the Reigns of Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I: Testamentary Evidence for the Restoration of Protestantism
This dissertation focuses on the investigation of religious expressions and personal piety of testators through 1624 wills from the counties of Kent and Gloucestershire during the reigns of Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I. The sample utilised in this dissertation is collected from The National Archives, Prerogative Court of Canterbury wills in series PROB 11. Drawing upon the collected primary sources, wills, this dissertation aims to categorise the wills under Protestant, Traditional (Catholic), Ambiguous, and a recently established category by myself, Crypto-Protestant and Catholic, to provide an insight into the changing personal piety and attitudes of laymen towards the policies of Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I. Previous historians predominantly focused on the committal of the wills, specifically where a testator bequeths his or her soul to the entitiy, to identify possible expression of personal piety to understand the possible religious affiliations of the testators from their secret voices reflected in wills. This research expands the interpretation of possible religious expressions and provides a new and unstudied analytical lens to the field by investigating and testing a variety of elements in wills, such as the entity to which the testator entrusted his or her soul to, reference to the title Supreme Head of the Church of England, Preambles, Verbs and Nouns utilised in the comittal part, presence and omission of the title Defender of the Faith and presence and omission of Acknowledgement of Monarchs. The study of these elements demonstrates changing use of religious and legal vernacular through lexical preferences of testators across regions and monarchs. This study not only tests these new elements for possible religious expressions and the identification of personal piety but also proposes a new interpretation for understanding the secret voice of testators. This dissertation also contributes to the overall debate on the validity and reliability of wills as religious sources for religious identity in Early Modern England.
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Host Plant Use by Competing Acacia-Ants: Mutualists Monopolize While Parasites Share Hosts
Protective ant-plant mutualisms that are exploited by non-defending parasitic ants represent prominent model systems for ecology and evolutionary biology. The mutualist Pseudomyrmex ferrugineus is an obligate plant-ant and fully depends on acacias for nesting space and food. The parasite Pseudomyrmex gracilis facultatively nests on acacias and uses host-derived food rewards but also external food sources. Integrative analyses of genetic microsatellite data, cuticular hydrocarbons and behavioral assays showed that an individual acacia might be inhabited by the workers of several P. gracilis queens, whereas one P. ferrugineus colony monopolizes one or more host trees. Despite these differences in social organization, neither of the species exhibited aggressive behavior among conspecific workers sharing a tree regardless of their relatedness. This lack of aggression corresponds to the high similarity of cuticular hydrocarbon profiles among ants living on the same tree. Host sharing by unrelated colonies, or the presence of several queens in a single colony are discussed as strategies by which parasite colonies could achieve the observed social organization. We argue that in ecological terms, the non-aggressive behavior of non-sibling P. gracilis workers--regardless of the route to achieve this social structure--enables this species to efficiently occupy and exploit a host plant. By contrast, single large and long-lived colonies of the mutualist P. ferrugineus monopolize individual host plants and defend them aggressively against invaders from other trees. Our findings highlight the necessity for using several methods in combination to fully understand how differing life history strategies affect social organization in ants.
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