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

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.

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