IMC 2026: Sessions
Session 1714: Long Live the Queen: Temporalities of Power, Resources, Representation, and Legacy in Late Medieval Central Europe, III
Thursday 9 July 2026, 14:15-15:45
| Sponsor: | Reconfiguring Bohemian Queenship: Power, Resources, and Effects in c. 1300-1500 / Royal Studies Network |
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| Organiser: | Zuzana Bolerazká, Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Palackého, Olomouc |
| Moderator/Chair: | Elena Woodacre, School of Humanities, University of Winchester |
| Paper 1714-a | Crime Scene Karlštejn Castle: The Death of Queen Joanna (d. 1386) Reconsidered (Language: English) Index terms: Medicine, Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1714-b | 'Ultimus vitae terminus advenisset': Gendering Death - Last Moments and Testamentary Strategies of Central European Royal Women (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1714-c | Temporality of Female Power: Continuity and Discontinuity of Female Governance in Luxembourg (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | These sessions investigate the temporalities in which the authority, resources, and legacies of Bohemian and other Central European royal women were articulated and reconfigured between c. 1300 and 1500, while also tracing their resonance beyond the Middle Ages. Papers consider the economic foundations of queenship in the form of dowry towns, possessions, and representation; the dynamics of intercession, and scandal; and the temporalities of death, commemoration, and dynastic continuity. Particular attention is paid both to short-term interventions (moments of negotiation, mobility, or contestation) and to longer-term trajectories, including artistic representation, material culture, and the enduring dynastic imprint of the Luxembourg queens across Europe. By bringing together women and queenship studies, political history, art history, material culture, and gender theory, these panels foreground the multiple ways in which royal women both responded to immediate circumstance and inscribed themselves within the longue durée of monarchy, memory, and power. |