Editing Adelaide of Italy (section)

==Historiography and cultural depictions==
{{Main|Cultural depictions of Adelaide of Italy}}

===Historiography===
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Adelaide was one of the most important and powerful medieval female rulers.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Ottonian queen as 'consors regni' – After Empire |url=https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/after-empire/2017/08/08/the-ottonian-queen-as-consors-regni/ |website=arts.st-andrews.ac.uk |access-date=15 July 2022}}</ref> Historically, as empress and saint, she has been described as powerful, with both male attributes (like strength, justness and prudence) and female attributes (piety, self denying).{{sfn|Buchinger|2016|p=38}} Modern German historiography tends to focus on her contributions to the Ottonian dynasty and the development of the Holy Roman Empire.

===Depictions in art===
Adelaide is usually represented in the garb of an empress, with sceptre and crown. Since the 14th century, she is also given as an attribute a model church or a ship (by which she is said to have escaped from captivity).

The most famous representation of Adelaide in German art belongs to a group of sandstone figures in the choir of [[Meissen Cathedral]], which was created around 1260. She is shown here with her husband, who was not canonized, since he founded the diocese of Meissen with her.

==== Operas ====
* Adelaide of Burgundy is the main character of the opera [[Adelaide (Sartorio)|''l'Adelaide'']] (1672) by [[Antonio Sartorio]].
* Adelaide is the subject of a 1723 opera by [[Nicola Porpora]], where she was played by the great castrato [[Farinelli]] en travesti.
* ''[[Lotario (Handel)|Lotario]]'' is a 1729 opera seria in three acts by [[George Frideric Handel]]. It is a fictionalisation of some events in the life of Adelaide.
* Adelaide is the heroine of ''[[Adelaide di Borgogna]]'', an opera with two acts (1817) by [[Gioachino Rossini]] (music) and [[Giovanni Schmidt]] (libretto). 
* Adelaide is the heroine of [[William Bernard McCabe]]'s 1856 novel ''Adelaide, Queen of Italy, or The Iron Crown''.

====  Books and novels ====
* ''Adelheid, Mutter der Königreiche (''Adelaide, Mother of Kingdoms) published in 1936 by [[Gertrud Bäumer]].
* ''Die fremde Königin'' (The Foreign Queen), published in 2017, Adelaide is one of the central characters in [[Rebecca Gablé]]'s novel.
* ''Empress Adelheid and Countess Matilda: medieval female rulership and the foundations of European society'' by Penelope Nash (2017).
* ''Imperial ladies of the Ottonian Dynasty: women and rule in tenth-century Germany'' by Phyllis G. Jestice (2018)
* ''God's Maidservant: The story of Adelaide of Italy (Women of the Dark Ages)'' by Anna Chant (2017)

==== Artwork ====
* ''San Giuseppe con Gesù Bambino tra Sant'Adelaide, Sant'Antonio da Padova, San Lupo e San Michele arcangelo'' by [[Francesco Coghetti]], 1828
* Adelaide is a featured figure on [[Judy Chicago]]'s installation piece ''[[The Dinner Party]]'', being represented as one of the 999 names on the ''[[List of women in the Heritage Floor|Heritage Floor]],'' with the related place setting of [[Theodora (wife of Justinian I)]].<ref name="Adelaide">{{cite web | year=2007 | title=Adelaide | work=Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: The Dinner Party: Heritage Floor: Adelaide | publisher=[[Brooklyn Museum]] | url=http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/heritage_floor/adelaide.php | access-date=15 December 2011}}</ref><ref name="C104105">Chicago, 104-105.</ref>