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 |
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Organiser: | Thomas Småberg, Department of Individual & Society, Malmö högskola |
Moderator/Chair: | Kurt Villads Jensen, Historiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet |
Paper 209-a | Regency, Power, and Ritual: On the Construction of the Image of the Regent in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Mentalities, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 209-b | Images of Queenship in 15th-Century Sweden (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies |
Paper 209-c | Queenly Emotions, Rhetoric, and Rituals of Intercession: The Roles of Royal and Aristocratic Women in Times of Rebellion and Civil War (Language: English) 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. |