IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1525: Central European Queenship, I: Embedding Power and Authority in Different Cultural and Legal Systems
Thursday 6 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Royal Studies Network |
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Organiser: | Patrik Pastrnak, Faculty of History, University of Oxford |
Moderator/Chair: | Patrik Pastrnak, Faculty of History, University of Oxford |
Paper 1525-a | Empress of 'Eternal Celebrity': Anne of Świdnica and the Promotion of Dynastic Cults in Late Medieval Bohemia (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Political Thought, Women's Studies |
Paper 1525-b | Queen Elizabeth of Luxembourg, 1409-1442: Modalities of Queenly Power in Premodern Central Europe (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Law, Women's Studies |
Paper 1525-c | Ruling in the Latin East: Margaret of Hungary, Queen Dowager of Thessalonica, 1207-1216 (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies |
Abstract | The first panel of proposed papers will look into a queen's networking role from a political, diplomatic, and legal perspective, bringing together examples from different chronological and cultural backgrounds, such as Bohemia, Hungary, Byzantium. Starting from the re-examination of the queenly agency in the political life of one Central-European realm, the session turns to scrutinise the ways how the queen's networking power transcended the different legal systems across the region, and concludes with the investigation of the political and diplomatic networking of one Central-European princess displaced to the Byzantine world and how her native background influenced her role as dowager. |