How many "bodies" does a queen have? What is the significance of
multiple "bodies"? How has the gendered body been constructed and
perceived within the context of the European courts during the
course of the past five centuries? These are some of the questions
addressed in this anthology, a contribution to the ongoing debate
provoked by Ernst H. Kantorowicz in his seminal work from 1957, The
King's Two Bodies. On the basis of both textual self-presentations
and visual representations a gradual transformation of the queen
appears: A sacred/providential figure in medieval and early modern
period, an ideal bourgeois wife during the late-18th and 19th
Centuries, and a star-like (re-) presentation of royalty during the
past century. Twentieth-century mass media has produced the
celebrity and film star queens personified by the contested and
enigmatic Nefertiti of ancient Egypt, the mysterious Elizabeth
(Sisi) of Austria, Grace Kelly as Queen of both Hollywood and
Monaco and Romy Schneider as the invented Empress.
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