IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 721: Renewal, Reform, and Dynastic Legitimacy in Medieval Monarchy
Tuesday 7 July 2015, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Royal Studies Network |
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| Organiser: | Elena Woodacre, Department of History, University of Winchester |
| Moderator/Chair: | Elena Woodacre, Department of History, University of Winchester |
| Paper 721-a | 'The Marriage Game': The Career of Queen Isabella I of Jerusalem (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies |
| Paper 721-b | Piety and the Power of a Lancastrian Queen: Queen Philippa (1394-1430) in Scandinavia and the Renewal of Female Piety (Language: English) Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
| Paper 721-c | From Composite to Compact: Dynastic Renewal and Reform in the Duchy of Lorraine, 1470-1480 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This session brings together three papers from across Europe during the High to Late Middle Ages to illustrate issues of renewal, reform, and dynastic legitimacy in medieval monarchy. The first two papers in the session, on the many marriages of Isabella Queen of Jerusalem and the piety of Philippa Queen of Sweden, demonstrate how queens can be key agents of renewal and reform through their personal piety and by acting as transmitters of royal authority and legitimacy. A third paper investigates the idea of renewal and reform enabling dynastic development and ambition, through the House of Lorraine's efforts to project themselves as a sovereign realm and a legitimate royal dynasty. |