IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1719: Medieval Power and Letters, III: Danish Kingship and English Royal Women
Thursday 5 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Research, University of Winchester |
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| Organiser: | Gordon McKelvie, Department of History, University of Winchester |
| Moderator/Chair: | Karl Christian Alvestad, Department of History, University of Winchester |
| Paper 1719-a | Long Live the King, the King is Dead!: The Usage of Titular Kingship in Letters during the Danish Royal War in 1250 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1719-b | 'I may labor a gwd and loweng vay be twxst you': Mediating Anglo-Scottish Diplomacy in the Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots, 1489-1541 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | This strand seeks to understand the ways in which medieval power could be demonstrated through letter writing and in letters. Both royalty and the nobility used letters in a variety of ways to showcase their power, by use of titles or through public intervention in diplomatic and political matters. Letters could be used to exercise agency, as well as provide an insight to the relationships between family members as well as acting as diplomatic documents. This session in particular examines the letters of royal women in England and Denmark. |