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by Antonia Fraser


  Crusades, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Cúchulainn (the Hound of Ulster), Ref 1, Ref 2

  Cyrus the Great, King of the Medes and Persians, Ref 1, Ref 2

  Dahomey, Ref 1

  Dalhousie, James A. B. Ramsay, 1st Marquis of, Ref 1, Ref 2

  Damodar Rao, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4

  Dante Alighieri: De Monarchia, Ref 1; Purgatorio, Ref 2

  Darnley, Henry Stewart, Earl of, Ref 1

  Dashkova, Ekaterina Romanovna, Princess, Ref 1

  David II, the Restorer (or Builder), King of Georgia, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4

  David III, King of Georgia, Ref 1

  David Sosland, Consort of Queen Tamara, Ref 1

  Davout, Marshal (Duc d’Auerstadt), Ref 1

  Dayan, Moshe, Ref 1

  Deborah (Biblical prophetess), Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4

  Dekker, Thomas, Ref 1

  Demna, King of Georgia, Ref 1

  Derby, Charlotte, Countess of, Ref 1

  Deutsch, Helene: The Psychology of Women, Ref 1

  Didgori, Battle of, 1121, Ref 1

  Dimitri, King of Georgia, Ref 1

  Dinitz, Simcha, Ref 1

  Dinner Party, The (exhibition), Ref 1

  Dinnerstein, Dorothy, Ref 1

  Dio Cassius: compares Boudica to Semiramis, Ref 1; account of Boudica, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4, Ref 5, Ref 6; on British rising, Ref 7, Ref 8, Ref 9, Ref 10; on Boudica’s speech, Ref 11; on sack of Camulodunum, Ref 12; on British atrocities, Ref 13, Ref 14; on sacking of cities, Ref 15; and Suetonius’ battle with rebels, Ref 16, Ref 17; and death of Boudica, Ref 18; on Roman vengeance, Ref 19; Polydore Vergil uses as source, Ref 20; and burial of Boudica, Ref 21

  Diodorus Siculus, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  ‘disarmed lady’, Ref 1

  Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, Ref 1

  Donizo: Vita Comitissae Mathildis, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Doughty, Charles: The Dawn in Britain, Ref 1

  Drake, Sir Francis, Ref 1

  Drogheda: Cromwellian massacre, Ref 1

  Druids, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4

  Dryden, John, Ref 1

  Dudley, Donald R. and Webster, Graham: The Rebellion of Boudicca, Ref 1

  Duleep Singh, Prince, Ref 1

  Dunbar, Agnes, Ref 1

  Duncan, Captain (of Life Guards), Ref 1

  Durga (Hindu goddess), Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Dynamis of Bosphorus, Ref 1, Ref 2

  Edward the Confessor, King of the English, Ref 1

  Edward VI, King of England, Ref 1, Ref 2

  Edward VII, King of Great Britain, Ref 1, Ref 2n

  Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of Louis VII of France, then of Henry II of England, Ref 1

  Elisabeth, Tsarina of Russia, Ref 1

  Elizabeth I, Queen of England: Ubaldini dedicates book to, Ref 1, Ref 2; and Golden Age, Ref 3; in historical comparisons, Ref 4, Ref 5; daughterhood, Ref 6, Ref 7, Ref 8, Ref 9, Ref 10; education and languages, Ref 11, Ref 12, Ref 13; and succession, Ref 14, Ref 15, Ref 16; attitude to war, Ref 17, Ref 18, Ref 19, Ref 20; dress, Ref 21, Ref 22, Ref 23; appearance, Ref 24; meets hostility to accession as woman, Ref 25, Ref 26; rivalry with Mary Queen of Scots, Ref 27; as honorary male, Ref 28; resists marriage, Ref 29, Ref 30; status as woman, Ref 31, Ref 32, Ref 33; finances, Ref 34; emphasises descent from Henry VIII, Ref 35; presence and speech at Tilbury, Ref 36, Ref 37, Ref 38, Ref 39, Ref 40, Ref 41; self-presentation and image, Ref 42, Ref 43, Ref 44; hunting, Ref 45; in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, Ref 46; and feminism, Ref 47; authority, Ref 48

  Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, Ref 1, Ref 2n, Ref 3

  Elizabeth of York, Queen of Henry VII, Ref 1

  Elliott, J. H., Ref 1

  Ellis, Major (Political Agent, Jhansi), Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Emesa (now Homs), Battle of, AD Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Encina, Juan del, Ref 1

  Enghien, Louis Antony Henry, Duc d’, Ref 1

  Enobarbus see Ahenobarbus

  Erskine, Major W. C., Ref 1, Ref 2

  Erzerum, Sultan of, Ref 1

  Eshkol, Levi, Ref 1

  Essex, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of, Ref 1, Ref 2

  Esther (biblical figure), Ref 1

  Euboea, Battle of, 487 BC, Ref 1

  Eustace (son of Stephen of Blois), Ref 1

  Fairthorne, W., Ref 1

  Falklands War, 1982, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4, Ref 5, Ref 6

  Fallaci, Oriana, Ref 1, Ref 2

  Fanti people, Ref 1

  Faydide of Toulouse, Ref 1

  Female Body in Western Culture, The (symposium), Ref 1

  Feminist Review, Ref 1

  feminists, feminism: on non-aggressive matriarchies, Ref 1; and Boadicea legend, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4; exhibitions and pageants, Ref 5; Mrs Thatcher disdains, Ref 6; on war and peace, Ref 7

  Feo, Giacomo, Ref 1

  Ferdinand, King of Aragon: and Columbus, Ref 1; and Isabella, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4; and throne of Castile, Ref 5; infidelities, Ref 6; and civil war in Castile, Ref 7; succeeds to throne of Aragon, Ref 8; and Reconquista, Ref 9, Ref 10; overseas ambitions and claims, Ref 11, Ref 12, Ref 13; and death of Isabella, Ref 14

  Fergus (Irish warrior), Ref 1

  Feria, Gomez de Figueroa, duque de, Ref 1

  Ferraro, Geraldine, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3; My Story, Ref 4

  Février, J. G., Ref 1

  Finnbenach (bull), Ref 1

  Fionni, Simone, Ref 1

  Flavius Vopiscus, Ref 1

  Fletcher, John: Bonduca, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Florence, Mary Sargent, Marshall, Catherine E. and Ogden, C. K.: Militarism versus Feminism, Ref 1

  Florine of Bourgogne, Ref 1

  Foix, Catherine de see Catherine de Foix

  Forlì, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4, Ref 5

  Forrest, George W.: A History of the Indian Mutiny, Ref 1

  Fox, Sir Cyril, Ref 1, Ref 2

  Francis of Lorraine, Holy Roman Emperor, Ref 1

  Franco–Prussian War, 1870–1, Ref 1

  Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia, Ref 1, Ref 2

  Frederick William III, King of Prussia, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4

  Frederick, Prince of Wales, Ref 1

  Frere, Sheppard, Ref 1

  Freud, Sigmund, Ref 1

  Friedland, Battle of, 1807, Ref 1

  Fuentes, Nicholas, Ref 1

  Fuller, Captain, Ref 1, Ref 2

  Fuller, Margaret: The Great Lawsuit, Ref 1, Ref 2

  Fulvia (wife of Mark Antony), Ref 1, Ref 2

  Gale (cartoonist), Ref 1

  Gale, George, Ref 1

  Gale, Roger, Ref 1

  Gale, Samuel, Ref 1

  Gallienus, Roman Emperor, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Galtieri, General Leopoldo Fortunato, Ref 1

  Gandhi, Indira: as honorary man, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3; daughterhood, Ref 4, Ref 5; as Durga, Ref 6; as Prime Minister, Ref 7, Ref 8; upbringing, Ref 9, Ref 10

  Gandhi, Rajiv, Ref 1

  Gangadhar Rao, Rajah of Jhansi, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4

  Gaulle, Charles de: The Edge of the Sword, Ref 1, Ref 2

  Gauls, Ref 1; see also Celts; Iceni

  Genghis Khan, Ref 1

  Gentz, Frederick von, Ref 1

  Geoffrey, Count of Anjou, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Geoffrey of Monmouth, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4; Historia Regum Britanniae, Ref 5

  George II, King of Great Britain (formerly Prince of Hanover), Ref 1, Ref 2

  George, Prince of Denmark, Consort of Queen Anne, Ref 1

  George Bogolyubski, Prince Consort of Queen Tamara, Ref 1

  Georgia: folk memories, Ref 1; geographical position, Ref 2; culture and society, Ref 3; historical development, Ref 4, Ref 5; see also Tamara, Queen of Georgia

  Gergovia, Battle of, 52 BC, Ref 1

  Gibbon, Edward: on women rulers, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3; on Zenobia, Ref 4, Ref 5, Ref 6, Ref 7, Ref 8; on Druids, Ref 9; on captives, Ref 10; on Mamaea, Ref 11; Decline and Fall of th
e Roman Empire, Ref 12

  Gibo, Francescolotto, Ref 1

  Gildas, monk, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Giorgi II, King of Georgia, Ref 1

  Giorgi III, King of Georgia, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4

  Giorgi IV, King of Georgia (formerly Prince; son of Tamara), Ref 1, Ref 2

  Gladstone, William Ewart, Ref 1

  Gleichen, Lord Edward, Ref 1

  Gluck, Christoph Willibald von: Armide, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Godfrey, Duke of Upper Lorraine, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Godfrey the Hunchback (first husband of Matilda), Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Godse, Vishnu, Ref 1

  Goethe, J. W. von, Ref 1; Wilhelm Meister, Ref 2

  Goodman, Bishop, Ref 1

  Gordon, Captain (at Jhansi), Ref 1

  Grahn, Judy, Ref 1; ‘She Who’, Ref 2

  Granada, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Great Mother (Celtic), Ref 1, Ref 2

  Greenham Common, Ref 1

  Gregory VII, Pope: relations with Matilda, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3; struggle with Emperor Henry IV, Ref 4, Ref 5, Ref 6; consecrated Pope, Ref 7; prohibits lay investiture, Ref 8; abducted, Ref 9; death in exile, Ref 10

  Gregory, Augusta, Lady, Ref 1

  Guesco, King, Ref 1

  Guiscard, Robert, Ref 1

  Gurbash Singh, Sergeant, Ref 1

  Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, Ref 1

  Gwalior, Ref 1

  Hadrian, Roman Emperor, Ref 1

  Hague Women’s Peace Conference, 1915, Ref 1

  Hailsham of St Marylebone, Quintin Hogg, Baron, Ref 1

  Hairan (Herodianus; Odainat’s father), Ref 1

  Hairan (heir of Odainat), Ref 1

  Hall, Mrs Matthew: The Queens Before the Conquest, Ref 1

  Hamilton, Cicely, Ref 1

  Hamilton, Emma, Lady, Ref 1

  Hamilton, Sir Robert, Ref 1

  Hannah (Prophetess), Ref 1

  Hardenberg, Carl August von, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4

  Hardy, Thomas: The Dynasts, Ref 1

  Harrington, Sir John, Ref 1

  Harris, Robert, Ref 1

  Hastings, Lady Selina, Ref 1

  Hatzfeld, Prince, Ref 1

  Healey, Denis, Ref 1

  Heath, Nicholas, Archbishop of York, Ref 1

  Heisch, Allison, Ref 1

  Henri III, King of France, Ref 1

  Henry IV, King of Castile, Ref 1, Ref 2

  Henry I, King of England, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4, Ref 5, Ref 6, Ref 7

  Henry II, King of England (‘Henry FitzEmpress’), Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4, Ref 5, Ref 6, Ref 7

  Henry VII, King of England, Ref 1

  Henry VIII, King of England: and Elizabeth, Ref 1; and succession, Ref 2, Ref 3n, Ref 4, Ref 5; marriage to Catherine of Aragon, Ref 6; builds Tilbury fort, Ref 7

  Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor, Ref 1, Ref 2

  Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor: struggle with Pope Gregory VII, Ref 1, Ref 2; conflicts with Matilda, Ref 3, Ref 4; barefoot penitence at Canossa, Ref 5; crowned at Rome, Ref 6; death, Ref 7; abdication, Ref 8

  Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, Ref 1, Ref 2

  Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester, Ref 1

  Hercules, Ref 1

  Hereti, Battle of, 1174, Ref 1

  Herodotus, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4

  Hertford, Frances Thynne, Countess of (later Duchess of Somerset), Ref 1

  Herzog, Dr Chaim (later President of Israel), Ref 1

  Heywood, Thomas: Exemplary Lives, Ref 1; Gynaekeion, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Hilda, St, Abbess of Whitby, Ref 1

  Hillgarth, J. N., Ref 1n

  Hind, Al-Hunūd, Queen, Ref 1

  Hippolyta, Queen, Ref 1

  Hobbes, Thomas, Ref 1

  Holinshed, Ralph, Ref 1, Ref 2

  Holofernes, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Holy (Armed) Figurehead: Warrior Queens as, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4, Ref 5, Ref 6; Matilda as, Ref 7; Maud as, Ref 8; Isabella as, Ref 9; Jinga as, Ref 10; Louise as, Ref 11, Ref 12; Elizabeth II as, Ref 13

  Holy League, Ref 1

  Holy Roman Empire: ended, Ref 1

  Homer, Ref 1

  Hondo, Med, Ref 1

  Honorius II, anti-Pope (Caladus of Parma), Ref 1

  Hood, Thomas, Ref 1

  Horace, Ref 1, Ref 2

  Horsley, John: Britannia Romana, Ref 159n

  Howard, the Hon. Edward, Ref 1

  Hugh, Abbot of Cluny, Ref 1

  Huldah (biblical figure), Ref 1

  Hunsdon, Henry Carey, 1st Baron, Ref 1

  Huntingdon, Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of, Ref 1

  Huston, Nancy, Ref 1

  Iceni (tribe): nature and society, Ref 1, Ref 2; Romans and, Ref 3, Ref 4; rebellion, Ref 5, Ref 6, Ref 7, Ref 8, Ref 9, Ref 10, Ref 11, Ref 12; coins, Ref 13; torcs, Ref 14; houses, Ref 15; plundered and punished, Ref 16; famine, Ref 17; repressed, Ref 18; see also Boudica; Celts

  Imola, Ref 1

  Indian Rebellion (or Mutiny), 1857, Ref 1, Ref 2

  Ipswich hoard, Ref 1

  Iraq–Iran War: girls in, Ref 1

  Ireland: Warrior Queen in, Ref 1

  Irnerius, Ref 1

  Isabella, Queen of Castile: and Golden Age, Ref 1; as Armed Figurehead, Ref 2, Ref 3; and Columbus, Ref 4; and Ferdinand, Ref 5, Ref 6, Ref 7; piety, Ref 8, Ref 9, Ref 10, Ref 11, Ref 12; expels Jews, Ref 13; and Reconquista, Ref 14, Ref 15, Ref 16; and Castile succession, Ref 17; crowned, Ref 18; education and training, Ref 19; character and virtue, Ref 20; appearance and dress, Ref 21, Ref 22; in literature, Ref 23; part in civil war, Ref 24; and Shame Syndrome, Ref 25, Ref 26; pregnancy and birth of son, Ref 27, Ref 28; and Caterina Sforza, Ref 29; dislike of bloodshed, Ref 30; death and will, Ref 31; authority, Ref 32; austerity, Ref 33

  Isis (goddess), Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4, Ref 5

  Israel: women soldiers in, Ref 1

  Jackson, Sir George, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Jackson, J. G., Ref 1

  James I of England, VI of Scotland, King, Ref 1

  Jean d’Albret, Ref 1

  Jena, Battle of, 1806, Ref 1, Ref 2

  Jerusalem: destroyed by Titus, Ref 1

  Jews: Zenobia and, Ref 1, Ref 2; in Palmyra, Ref 3; Queen Isabella expels, Ref 4

  Jhansi (state): British policy on, Ref 1; mutiny in, Ref 2; massacre of Europeans in, Ref 3, Ref 4, British attack, Ref 5; British retribution in, Ref 6

  Jhansi, Lakshmi Bai, Rani of: voice, Ref 1, Ref 2; widowhood, Ref 3; seen as goddess of war, Ref 4, Ref 5, Ref 6; reputation, Ref 7, Ref 8, Ref 9; life, Ref 10; wedding, Ref 11; argues for regency, Ref 12; and massacre of Europeans, Ref 13, Ref 14; rule, Ref 15; appearance and dress, Ref 16; riding, Ref 17; in defence of Jhansi, Ref 18; accused of licentiousness, Ref 19, Ref 20; escapes to Kalpi, Ref 21; killed in defence of Gwalior, Ref 22; bravery, Ref 23; tributes to and commemorations, Ref 24; in Pageant of Great Women, Ref 25; and adopted son, Ref 26

  Jinga, Queen of Angola (Jinga, Nzinga, Singa or Zhinga Mbandi): Fuller describes, Ref 1, Ref 2; and country’s cause, Ref 3; life and career, Ref 4; legends about, Ref 5, Ref 6, Ref 7; and slavery, Ref 8; as goddess, Ref 9

  John II, King of Castile, Ref 1

  John, Prince of Castile (son of Isabella), Ref 1; death, Ref 2

  John, King of England, Ref 1

  John, Hermit, Ref 1

  Johnson, Maurice, Ref 1

  Johnson, Paul, Ref 1

  Johnson, Samuel, Ref 1

  Jones, Ernest, Ref 1

  Jones, Inigo, Ref 1

  Jonson, Ben: The Masque of Queenes, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Josephine, Empress of France, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Joshi, P. C.: Folk Songs of ‘1857’, Ref 1

  Juana, Princess of Castile (Isabella’s daughter), Ref 1

  Juana ‘la Beltraneja’, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Judith (biblical figure): as Warrior Queen, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3; portrayed, Ref 4, Ref 5; later reputation, Ref 6

  Judith (Old English poem), Ref 1

  Julia Domna, Emp
ress of Septimius Severus, Ref 1

  Julia Maesa, Ref 1

  Julia Pacuta, Ref 1

  Julius Civilis, Ref 1, Ref 2

  Julius Classicianus, Ref 1, Ref 2

  Kala Khan, Risaldar, Ref 1

  Kalb, Marvin, Ref 1

  Kali (Hindu goddess), Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Kalkreuth, General Friedrich Adolf, Count von, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Kalpi (India), Ref 1

  Kartli, Ref 1; see also Georgia

  Kashi (attendant to Rani of Jhansi), Ref 1

  Kaufman, Gerald, Ref 1

  Kaye, Sir John: History of the Sepoy War in India, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Keegan, John: The Mask of Command, Ref 1

  Kelly, Joan, Ref 1, Ref 2

  Kelly, Laurence, Ref 1

  Kelly, Petra: Fighting for Hope, Ref 1

  Khevenmüller, General J. J., Ref 1, Ref 2

  King, Betty: Boadicea, Ref 1

  Kleist, Heinrich von, Ref 1, Ref 2; Penthesilea, Ref 3, Ref 4

  Kleist, Marie von, Ref 1

  Knight, Frances, Ref 1

  Knox, John, Ref 1, Ref 2; The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women, Ref 3, Ref 4, Ref 5

  Lady of Victory, Ref 1; see also Holy Figurehead

  Lakwena, Alice, Ref 1

  Lambarde, William: Pandecta, Ref 1

  Lang, John, Ref 1, Ref 2

  Lara, Count of, Ref 1

  Laver, P. G., Ref 1

  Lear, King, Ref 1, Ref 2

  Legions (Roman): Augusta, IInd, Ref 1, Hispana, IXth, Ref 2; XIVth, Ref 3, Ref 4; XXth, Ref 5

  Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4

  Lermontov, Mikhail: The Demon, Ref 1, Ref 2

  Leveson-Gower, Lord Granville (later 1st Earl Granville), Ref 1

  Lilburne, John, Ref 1

  Livingstone, David, Ref 1

  Livy, Ref 1, Ref 2

  Londinium: as Roman town, Ref 1; Suetonius abandons, Ref 2; sacked and burned, Ref 3, Ref 4, Ref 5, Ref 6

  Longinus, Cassius, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3

  Longinus Sdapezematygus, Ref 1

  Louis VII, King of France, Ref 1

  Louis XII, King of France, Ref 1

  Louis XIV, King of France, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4

  Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, Ref 1

  Louise, Queen of Prussia: as Warrior Queen, Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4; marriage and children, Ref 5, Ref 6, Ref 7; and Napoleon, Ref 8, Ref 9, Ref 10, Ref 11; character and appearance, Ref 12, Ref 13, Ref 14; and Tsar Alexander I, Ref 15, Ref 16; in alliance against France, Ref 17; and French conquests, Ref 18; flight and illness, Ref 19; presence at battle, Ref 20; meets Napoleon at Tilsit, Ref 21; death, Ref 22; as national heroine, Ref 23

  Low, Major-General Sir John, Ref 1, Ref 2

 

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