IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1024: Queenship and Power, I: Queenship, Art, Language, and Landscape in 14th-Century England
Wednesday 14 July 2010, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
|---|---|
| Organiser: | Lisa Benz, Department of History, University of York |
| Moderator/Chair: | W. Mark Ormrod, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
| Paper 1024-a | Queenship and the Landscape: Lordship and Agency in the Estates of English Medieval Queens (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Gender Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1024-b | Queenship and the Language of Command: Some Evidence from Ancient Correspondence (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archives and Sources, Gender Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1024-c | Queen Isabella of France: Artistic Patronage and her Political Career (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Gender Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This is the first session of two on medieval queenship and power in Europe. Understanding the queen's role is essential to revealing the cultural, political, and administrative history of the Middle Ages. It is the aim of these sessions to showcase new scholarship on the practice of queenship. This session will explore the modes of queenly power in 14th-century England in three areas, which previous scholars have only touched upon: the queen's power as lord of her own estates, the methods in which the queen uses language to demonstrate her power, and the way the queen's political power is expressed through art. |