IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1725: Central European Queenship, III: Confronting the Network Effects - Mediation, Regicide, Calumny
Thursday 6 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Royal Studies Network |
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Organiser: | Patrik Pastrnak, Faculty of History, University of Oxford |
Moderator/Chair: | Elena Woodacre, Department of History, University of Winchester |
Respondent: | Patrik Pastrnak, Faculty of History, University of Oxford |
Paper 1725-a | Queens of Bohemia and Intercessory Power (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History, Women's Studies |
Paper 1725-b | Parallels and Intersections in 14th-Century Southern Italian-Hungarian Relations: Queen Johanna I of Naples (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Politics and Diplomacy, Rhetoric, Women's Studies |
Paper 1725-c | What Happened in the Low Countries, Didn't Stay in the Low Countries: The Theory of the Spread of Gossip about the Queens of the House of Luxembourg (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Rhetoric, Sexuality, Women's Studies |
Abstract | Building upon the themes from the previous two sessions, the last panel of the proposed papers will scrutinise the positive and negative effects of queens' networks and activities. Starting with the examination of the fluidity of the mediatory role of Bohemian queens, attention will shift to the reevaluation of defamatory and gossip networks that emerged as a result of the queens' agency and interdynastic links. The accusation of regicide or the spread of rumours could thus be seen as a counterforce challenging the queen's networking skills or an echo of the sheer scale of her connections. |