Gabrielle’s first book, a biography of Berengaria of Navarre, queen of England and lord of Le Mans, was published with Routledge in 2024. You can purchase a copy here.
She is currently working on her first book for trade with Constable, due to be published in 2027.
Gabrielle has also edited multiple collections and contributed to edited journals and volumes, shown below. She is currently co-editing a special issue of the journal Parergon (2027) and an edited collection on crisis and conflict in the premodern world.
Books
2024
Co-editor and contributor of Premodern ruling sexualities. Representation, identity, and power (Manchester University Press, 2024)
2021
This volume explores a range of premodern rulers and their depictions in historiography, literature, art and material culture to gain a broader understanding of their sexualities. It considers the methodologies and motivations of premodern writers and rulers when fashioning royal and elite sexualities and offers new analyses of an array of texts and artwork from across Europe and the wider Mediterranean.
It is available to purchase here.
2021
Sole editor and contributor of Memorialising Premodern Monarchs. Medias of Commemoration and Remembrance (Palgrave, 2021).
This book examines the legacies and depictions of monarchs in an international context, focusing on both self-representation and commemoration by others. Spanning ancient India through to eighteenth-century Russia, this volume offers several case studies to demonstrate trends and patterns in how different societies chose to commemorate and remember their rulers in a variety of mediums. Contributions highlight several lesser known rulers, alongside more famous ones such as Henry VIII of England, to develop a deeper understanding of how memory and monarchy functioned when drawn together. Memorialising Premodern Monarchs brings to the fore the importance of memory and memorialisation when considering the legacies and records of past rulers and their societies, and allows a deeper reflection on how these rulers live on through the historical record and popular culture.
Gabrielle also contributed two chapters to this collection:
‘Introduction: The Memorialisation of Monarchs in an International Context,’ and ‘Oh To Be A Queen: The Representations of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Isabella of Angoulême, Two Scandalous Queens, in Historical Fiction.’
Edited Collections
2018
Forgotten Queens in Medieval and Early Modern Europe examines queens dowager and queens consort who have disappeared from history or have been deeply misunderstood in modern historical treatment.
Gabrielle contributed the chapter: ‘Berengaria of Navarre and Joanna of Sicily as crusading queens: Manipulation, reputation and agency’ in Valerie Schutte and Estelle Paranque (eds.), Forgotten Queens in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Political Agency, Myth-making and Patronage (Routledge, 2018).
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