Charles Beem

As a professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Pembroke, I am totally dedicated to fashioning a literate, thinking, critical society, and devoted to the pursuit of social justice, peace, and harmony. As a writer, I have been fascinated with British Monarchy, and the Tudor dynasty in particular, since I was a kid. My first book, The Lioness Roared (2006) examines the history of female rule in England from the twelfth to the 20th centuries. As I remain intrigued by the possibilities of looking at the 'big picture" of royal history, my second book, the edited volume, The Royal Minorities of Medieval and Early Modern England (2008) examines the history of boy kings from the 13th to the 16th centuries. I am also the co-editor (with Carole Levin) of the book series "Queenship and Power" for publishers Palgrave Macmillan, which has published my third book " The Foreign Relations of Elizabeth I (2011), my fourth, "The Name of a Queen: William Fleetwood's Itinerarium ad Windsor (2013, co-edited with Dennis Moore), and my fifth, "The Man Behind the Queen: Male Consorts in History (2014). I also served as a consulting editor for the March 2011 edition of Calliope magazine, which features essays on Henry VIIII of England, and I contributed to the March 2017 edition of Dig magazine, which features essays on Isabel of Castile. I am currently working on a new monograph, "Queenship in Early Modern Europe" and looking forward to the publication of my novel "Winchester: A Tale of the Two Matildas."