Leonor Plantagenet y la consolidación castellana en el reinado de Alfonso VIII
The kingdom of Castile experienced a process of political and territorial consolidation between the death of Sancho III in 1158 and the Curia of Carrion de los Condes in 1188, leaving behind the troublesome minority of Alfonso VIII and the subordination to the kingdom of Leon, and thus becoming a dominant power within the peninsula, and one that achieved considerable success in the Reconquest. The following article is part of a biographical approach to Eleanor Plantagenet, queen consort of Alfonso VIII, and by means of a specifi c focus offers an analysis of the role played by the English queen in this process of political consolidation of Castile. As we approach the eighth centenary of her death, the life and work of this little-studied woman emerges as a testimony to the important diplomatic and cultural tasks assumed by queens in twelfth-century Europe.
Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) and Political Women in the High Middle Ages
Mother of a Sisterhood: Leonor of England, Queen of Castile (1160?-1214) Princesses Among Men: Leonor's Daughters and the Function of Marriage The Queen Stands Alone: Political Motherhood after Marriage Princesses Among Women: Youth, Old Age, and the Heavenly Bridegroom Living with the Dead Mothers and Crusaders A New Semiramis, or the Manly Queen
Professor Penck's Bluff: Geography, Espionage and Hysteria in World War I
Abstract This article considers the image of geography during World War I through a discussion of newspaper controversies about the pre‐war activities of German and British geographers. Early in the war, Sven Hedin and Albrecht Penck, renowned geographers whose achievements had been widely celebrated by the British geographical establishment, were named in the media as enemy spies whose supposedly disinterested scientific inquiries in Britain and the Empire had masked their real intention to pass sensitive information to the German High Command. British geography stood accused of collusion with enemy ‘super spies’. This article examines how Britain's geographical community, represented by the Royal Geographical Society, sought to defend the discipline's patriotic virtue and head off a full‐scale media witch‐hunt. In so doing, the article comments on the media's role in shaping the image of geography and on geography's place in public debates about the sanctity of the national space.