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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 209: Rituals and Representations of Rulership: On Expressions of Female and Male Power and Authority in 15th-Century Sweden

Monday 5 July 2021, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:Malmö universitet
Organiser:Thomas Småberg, Department of Individual & Society, Malmö högskola
Moderator/Chair:Kurt Villads Jensen, Historiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet
Paper 209-aRegency, Power, and Ritual: On the Construction of the Image of the Regent in the Late Middle Ages
(Language: English)
Thomas Småberg, Department of Individual & Society, Malmö högskola
Index terms: Gender Studies, Mentalities, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 209-bImages of Queenship in 15th-Century Sweden
(Language: English)
Margaretha Nordquist, Department of History, Stockholms Universitet
Index terms: Gender Studies, Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies
Paper 209-cQueenly Emotions, Rhetoric, and Rituals of Intercession: The Roles of Royal and Aristocratic Women in Times of Rebellion and Civil War
(Language: English)
Kim Bergqvist, Historiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet
Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies
Abstract

This session will explore the ritual constructions and representations of rulership in a kingdom that during the 15th century saw a variety of formal forms of rulerships, such as different types of kingship, as well as aristocratic rule, and regency. In such a fluid power landscape, female and male power had various expressions depending on the strategies employed by different power networks. Departing from the notion of rulership as merely a complex of political power relations, and through analysis of cultural aspects of rulership, this session aims at shedding new light over a period mostly seen as a struggle between Danish royal power and Swedish aristocratic power and through this analysis problematizing female and male power and authority.