Kings & Queens 4 – Royal Studies Network.Program Draft

8/21/2019 Kings & Queens 4 – Royal Studies Network.Program Draft

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Kings & Queens 4 – Royal Studies Network

Lisbon, 23rd

-27th

June 2015

Draft Schedule

Conference’s Eve (23-6-2015)

16h - Opening ceremony (Odivelas’ Monastery)

(Ellie Woodacre, Manuela Santos Silva, Cesar Olivera Serrano (CSIC Madrid)

Visit to the Monastery and wine-reception offered by the Municipality of Odivelas


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UNIVERSITY OF LISBON (ULisboa)

School of Arts and Humanities (FACULDADE DE LETRAS)

A – Room 4 / B – Room 5.1 / C – Room 5.2 / D – Room 3.1

Day 1 (24 June 2015 )

10h-11h (Amphitheatre 4)

Conference with Keynote speaker - Jeroen Duindam (University of Leiden)

11h-11h30m –

Coffee-break

Session 1- 11h30m-13h

A.1. Early monarchic models: kinship, war and royal legitimacyOrganizer: K&Q4Chair:1.Arturo Sánchez Sanz Sovereignty, kinship and gender in Scythian world

2. Francis Leneghan Beowulf and biblical kingship: a dynastic model?

3.Hang Lin From Tribesmen of Manchuria to Ruler of China:Legitimation under the Jurchen Jin (1125-1234) inTwelfth-Century China

B.1.By the Grace of God or free will of the people? Legitimacy of royal power inPoland-Lithuania, 16th-18th c.Organizer: Ana Kalinowska

Chair:

1.Jolanta Choinska-Mika ‘Pupilla libertatis’. Royal "free elections" in thePolish- Lithuanian Commonwealth - the origins,ideology and practice in the 16th century

2.Anna Kalinowska ‘Illustrious Jagiellonian blood’. Dynastic traditionand legitimacy of royal power in the 17th centuryPoland-Lithuania

3.Katarzyna Kuras ‘The king with his people, the people with theirking’. Legitimacy of royal power in the 18th c.

Poland-Lithuania


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C.1. Dynastic changes, legitimacy and acculturationOrganizer: K&Q4Chair: 1.Nuria Silleras Dynastic legitimacy and acculturation: the

Trastámaras in Aragon (1412-1516)

2.Sergio Ramiro Ramírez Francisco de los Cobos, precursor of Arts: news onthe assimilation process of the Empire concept inCastile and Aragon and its impact on the image of

power

3.Zita Rohr HOLLOW CROWNS AND SHIFTINGSOVEREIGNTIES: DYNASTIC CHANGE ANDLEGITIMACY IN THE KINGDOM OF NAPLES-SICILY 1380-1442

D.1. Scholars and ecclesiastics in the legitimisation of new dynastiesOrganizer: K&Q4Chair:

1.Matthew M. Mesley Episcopal Kingmakers: Political Legitimacy andGender in Thirteenth-Century Germany and England

2.André O. Leitão, Armando Norte

Building legitimacies: the role of legal scholars in theconsolidation of the new Hispanic dynasties (late-14th

to early-15th centuries)

13h-14h30m - Lunch

Session 2 -14h30m-16h

A.2. Muslim MonarchiesOrganizer: K&Q4

Chair:1.Fouzia Farooq Importing Trust into the Realm: A Study of Power- base of the Delhi Sultans

2.Leland C. Barrows Dynastic Change and Legitimacy in Songhai: the Askia Displace the Sonni

3.Fatima Rhorchi "Consolidating Authority in 17th cent Morocco:Sultan Moulay Ismail's struggle for legitimacy."

B.2. THE LEGITIMACY LANGUAGE. CONSOLIDATOR MECHANISMS AND STRENGTHENING

I NSTRUMENTS OF THE MONARCHICAL POWER IN THE CROWN OF CASTILE DURING THEMIDDLE AGES


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Organizer: Diana Pelaz FloresChair:

1.Marina Kleine Alfonso X and the theoretical apparatus of the royal power in the Crown of Castile during the XIIIth century

2.Diana Pelaz Flores Much more than the king’s wife. Marriage asinstrument of Queenly authority and her identity inthe Trastámara dynasty (1369-1474)

3.Lledó Ruiz Domingo From the election to the consolidation. The strategiesof legitimacy of the Trastámara dynasty in the Crownof Aragon.

C.2. Using political culture as strategy of legitimizationOrganizer: Charlotte Backerra and Cathleen SartiChair:1.Charlotte Backerra (Re-)Discovering a family’s traditions? The

Hanoverians as successors to the throne of GreatBritain

2.Cathleen Sarti Just a family dispute? How Sigismund Vasa wasmade an alien by his uncle Charles

3.Fabian Perrson Something Old and Something New: WeavingLegitimacy Into Early Modern Swedish Dynasties

16h-16h30m – Coffee-break

Session 3 - 16h30m-18h

A.3. Dynastic Changes, Legitimacy and Political (Dis-)Continuity – a ComparativeApproachOrganiser: K&Q4Chair:

1.Penny Nash The Stability and Strength of the Ottonian Dynastyin Tenth- and Eleventh-Century Germany

2.Victor Mandzjak Three Attempts of Volhynian MonomachovychesInherit the Throne of Halychian Rostyslavyches

3.Iris Holzwart-Schäfer Dynastic Changes, Legitimacy and Political(Dis)Continuity – a Comparative Approach

B.3. THE LEGITIMACY LANGUAGE. CONSOLIDATITOR MECHANISMS ANDSTRENGHTHENING INSTRUMENTS OF THE MONARCHICAL POWER IN THE


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CROWN OF CASTILE DURING THE MIDDLE AGES (II). Organizer: Diana PelazFloresChair:Francisco de Paula Cañas Gálvez Political legitimacy and Institutional development of

the Trastámara Monarchy in the Crown of Castile

(1369-1474)

Raúl González González Building legitimacies: the role of legal scholars in theconsolidation of the new Hispanic dynasties (late-14thto early-15th centuries)

Juan Prieto Sayagués Royal Patronage versus Nobiliary Patronage at theCastilian monasteries during the 15th century. Aconflict of legitimacies?

C.3. Court Ceremonial as dynastic legitimacyOrganiser: K&Q4Chair:

1.Austeja Brasiunaite The role of Women in the Royal court and asMedieval diplomatic envoys (diplomatic marriagesand dynastic marriage during existence of GrandDuchy)

2.Ruth Martínez Alcorlo Marriage, Power and Legitimacy: Isabel of Castile(1470-1498) and Manuel I of Portugal

3.Cristina Carvalho Hints of Absolutist and Baroque features in CharlesII’s Restoration

18h – Book exhibition on Monarchy Subjects (Faculty Library)

Day 2 (25 June 2015)


A.4. Dynastic legitimacy after a coup d’état Organiser: K&Q4Chair:1.Isabel P. Baleiras 1383-1385, PORTUGAL: COUP D’ÉTAT OR

DEMOCRACY?

2.Tiago Viula Faria All in the family: cross-legitimization strategies intwo late-medieval monarchies


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3.Leonardo Carvalho-Gonçalves The Royal good Deaths in medieval chronicles as part of the Avis dynasty legitimacy campaign: Theexamples of John I and Philippa of Lancaster in acomparative vision.

B.4. The rhetoric of legitimacyOrganiser: K&Q4Chair:1.Elizabeth Kinne Subject to change: Forging Early and Post-Modern

Subjectivities in Christine de Pizan and FrankHerbert

2.Estelle Parenque Threats to the English Crown: Elizabeth Tudor’s andMary Queen of Scots’ rhetoric as prisoners

3.Arlette de Jesus Saint Teresa of Ávila’s Rhetoric of RoyalLegitimization: Her Letters to Philip II

C.4. Tradition and change as guarantees of dynastic continuity (18th/19th centuries)Organiser: K&Q4Chair:

1.Ekaterina Kolmogorova The role of the portraiture in the supporting of thelegitimacy of the imperial power in XVIII - earlyXIX century Russia

2.Pedro Urbano A throne and two brothers: the impact of the civil warin the composition of the Portuguese RoyalHousehold.

3.Júlia PlatonovnaKorobtchenko

Her Majesty the Queen Maria II and the Duque ofLeuchtenberg: the first royal marriage of thePortuguese Constitutional Monarchy



A.5. Iberian intersections in the Late Fifteen CenturyOrganiser: K&Q4Chair:1.Germán Gamero Igea Keeping loyalty at the end of a dynasty: the “other

courtiers” of Ferdinand II of Aragon (1468-1516)


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2.Marcelo da Encarnação He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tune – Propaganda, War and Legitimacy in Fifteenth-Century Iberia

3.Paula Rodrigues Two crowns to a queen without a throne: Joanna,The Great Lady (1462-1530)

B.5. Creating Legitimacy and Kings in Medieval ScandinaviaOrganiser: Kerstin HundahlChair: 1.Ian Peter Grohse Fiction of Adult Rule: Youth and Kingship in

Twelfth-Century Norway

2.Kerstin Hundahl Christopher I. Right or Usurpation of the Throne?Using the Past as a Legitimization Tool

3.Thomas Småberg The Lion, the Duke and the infant King: Legitimizingstrategies of a Swedish royal lineage in the fourteenthcentury

C.5. When the ruler is a womanOrganiser: K&Q4Chair:

1.Elisabetta Colla When the Emperor is a woman: the case of WuZetian

2.Miriam Shadis Legitimizing queenship: the first Dynasty of theKingdom of Portugal

3.Ellie Woodacre A break from the past or carrying on the tradition?Female rulers and dynastic change: A comparativestudy

13h-14h30m - Lunch


A.6. Dynastic Changes in Modern Portugal (late 16th - late 17th centuries)Organiser: K&Q4Chair:

1.Jacqueline Hermann O processo de legitimidade de D. Antônio, Prior doCrato, e sua candidatura à sucessão do reino dePortugal (1578-1580)

2.Maria Leonor G. Cruz Filipe I de Portugal: ordenações do reino e regras degestão social e económica na mudança de dinastia


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3.Filipe Francisco Na fronteira de novas legitimidades – as cortes de1697

B.6. Confronted historiographies: A Re-examination of Contemporary Sources about

the Castilian Civil WarOrganiser: Rosa Rodríguez-Porto and Sacramento Roselló-MartínezChair:1.Covadonga Valdaliso The lost chronicle of Peter I: Historiography and

Literature in the Reconstruction of the Memory ofthe King

2.Bretton Rodríguez Competing Images of Pedro I: López de Ayala’sChronicle in Context

3.Rebecca Holdorph ‘He is Legitimate Heir of the Realms’: John ofGaunt, Constance of Castile and the Lancastrian

Claim to Castile and León

C.6. Legitimacy and Regnant QueenshipOrganiser: K&Q4Chair:

1.Ana de Fátima William I and Emma of Normandy

2.Lynsey Wood The very next blood of the King’: the law of femaledynastic succession in English history

3.Mariana BrocKmann Franco-Scottish Union: Dynasty, Legitimacy andRegnant Queenship, 1548-1560



A.7. The human frailty of Monarchy. Portuguese Dynastic changes and Regency periods in XVII and XVIII centuriesOrganiser: Ana Leal de FariaChair:1.Ana Leal de Faria Is it better to be Queen for a single day than Duchess

an entire life? (1656-62)2.Carolina Soares The regency of Prince Pedro - the multiple challenges

in the search of balance and legitimacy (1667-1683)

3.Nuno Castro Luís João, Prince Regent: “to be or not to be” in the

Dynasty of Bragança


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B.7. ‘Petrista Networks’. Galicia as a case-studyOrganiser: Rosa Rodríguez-Porto and Sacramento Roselló-MartínezChair:

1.Ricardo Pichel Gotérrez Courtly Culture and Literary Patronage: The Galician

House of Andrade2.Clara Pascual-Argente El Victorial ’s Galician Knight and the Networks of

Petrismo

3.Rosa Rodríguez-Porto andSacramento Roselló-Martínez

Controversy, Lineage and Memory: the Future ofPetrista Networks

C.7. Queenship and religionOrganiser: K&Q4

Chair:1.Taiko Maria Hessler The Queenly Dynasty: Isabel of Aragon’s Sainthood

and Queenship in the Medieval Iberian Context

2.Louise Berglund Queen Philippa of Scandinavia, female piety andauthority. Two Bohun prayer books and theirshifting late medieval contexts

3.Diana LUCÍA GÓMEZ-CHACÓN

The Dominicanism of Two Virtuous Queens: Maryand Eleanor of Aragon

20h – Conference-dinner at the Hotel Mundial (Lisbon city-center)

Day 3 (26 June 2015)


A.8. Mental Illnesses and the dangers of Consanguinity in RoyaltyOrganiser: K&Q4Chair:

1.Boncho Dragiyski Her (un)becoming: Isabella of Portugal (d. 1496) andBeatriz da Silva (d. 1492)

2.Hélder Carvalhal, F. Ceballos,T. J. Peters, G. Álvarez

Dynastic Changes and Legitimacy: The role ofConsanguinity in Braganza´s Dynasty (1640-1910)

3.Timothy Peters Cognitive Archaeology: New tools for Historians.Handwriting Assessment and Latent SemanticAnalysis of the letters of King George III of Great

Britain (1738-1820) applied to a Study of his MentalIllnesses


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B.8. The ecclesiastical defence of royal legitimacy through discourses and actions IOrganizer: DEGRUPE project (The European Dimension of a Group of Power:

Ecclesiastics and the political State Building of the Iberian Monarchies / Monarchies

(13th-15th centuries)

Chair:1.Herminia Vilar A Portuguese prologue to the schism: Fernando I and

the church in the last decades of the XIVth century

2.André Coelho In the coming of the Messiah of Lisbon: ecclesiasticalsupport during the dynastic crisis of 1383-1385

3.Néstor Vigil Ecclesiastics in the construction of internationallegitimacy of the Portuguese dynasty of Avis

C.8. Late Medieval and Early Modern Queens and RegentsOrganiser: K&Q4Chair:

1. James Ellis Making and breaking peace: Women as peacemakersin mid-fifteenth century Castile

2. Reneé Langlois Power & Authority of Royal Queen Mothers:Comparing the French Queen Regent and theOttoman Valide Sultan during the 16th-17th centuries.

3. Ana Paula Avelar Luisa de Guzmán: silent glimpses of a reign



A.9. Legitimising the Braganza DynastyOrganiser: K&Q4Chair:1.Viviane Kawata «Necessidade de consentimento do Reyno, & serem

aprouados pelos tres Estados delle, & em quantonão o fossem, não poderiaõ Reynar» : therelationships of power between Braganza Kings andtheir Councillors in the 17th century"

2.Francisca Almeida The Exaltation of Braganza Dynasty in the RoyalBaptism: Liturgy as a Means to Fulfill a DynasticPurpose

3.Paula Almeida The exaltation of "holiness" of Bragança Dynasty as

legitimating strategy (XVIIth

century)


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B.9. The ecclesiastical defence of royal legitimacy through discourses and actions IIOrganizer: DEGRUPE project (The European Dimension of a Group of Power:

Ecclesiastics and the political State Building of the Iberian Monarchies / Monarchies

(13th-15th centuries) Chair: Maria João Branco

1.Hermenegildo Fernandes Bishop and ulemah : negotiating power in Portugaland in the almohada empire around 1230

2.Francisco Diaz Marcilla Oedipus Complex in Ecclesiastical Soup: Loyaltiesand Disloyalties of Clerics during the Reign ofAlfonse X and Sancho IV

3.Ricardo Seabra The regency of Pedro of Portugal and the influence ofthe clergy

C.9. Royal Ceremonies and dynastic legitimacyOrganiser: K&Q4Chair:

1.Trond Nóren Isaksen The Norwegian wars of succession and the conflict between two opposing ideas of legitimacy in thesecond half of the twelfth century

2.Lucinda Dean Stating their Place: Ceremonial Legitimization of theStewart Dynasty from 1371 to c.1460

3.Rebecca M. Favorito The Coronation of Henry IV and the Legitimizationof Lancastrian Rule: The Lancaster Sword as aSymbol of Conquest

13h-14h30m – Lunch


A.10. The War of the Spanish SuccessionOrganiser: K&Q4Chair:

1.Caitlin Brady (no title) Regency of Mariana of Austria for CharlesII

2.Cristina Agüero Carnerero The War of the Spanish Succession and theresistance to Philip V. New documents on theconfiscation of the 11th Admiral of Castille’s palacesin Madrid


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3.Rocío Martínez López The Spanish Monarchy in the crossroad: MaximilianII Emmanuel of Bavaria after the outbreak of theWar of Spanish Succession (1700-1713)

B.10. Monarchical topics in Art and LiteratureOrganiser: K&Q4Chair:1.Alexandra Karagianni Purple dreams of the Byzantine Macedonian dynasty

in manuscript illuminations: the usurper emperorBasil I (867-886)

2.Inês Araújo Iconography, Power and Legitimacy of thePortuguese kings: Images of war in the LateMedieval and Early Modern Ages

3.Nadia van Pelt After Henry VIII's death: Mid-Tudor Drama and the

Issues of Legitimacy and Succession

C.10. Gender and monarchy

Organiser: K&Q4Chair:1.Mariana Bonat Trevisan KINGS AND FATHERS: The monarchical

protection function and the fathering function inAvis’ dynastic discourses (Portugal – 15th Century)

2.Emma Levitt In the flowering of his age’: knightly masculinity andthe establishment of the Yorkist dynasty underEdward IV (1461-1483)

3.Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues «Gender and legitimacy in the first generations of theAvis dynasty»



A.11. Naples and the Bourbon DynastyOrganiser: K&Q4Chair:1.Jonathan Spangler A New Dynasty for the Kingdom of Naples in 1647:

Guise, Bourbon or ‘other’? 2.Michelle Lacriola The rise of the House of Bourbon in the kingdom of

Naples3.Cinzia Recca ‘The reversal of dynasties’ during the era of House of

Bourbon in the Kingdom of Naples


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B.11. Liturgy of power: ceremonial, literary culture and legitimacy in al-Andalus (Xth – XIth centuries)Organiser: Inês Lourinho?Chair: Hermenegildo Fernandes1.Elsa Cardoso Ceremonial and Political Legitimacy under the Rule

of Caliph ‘Abd ar -Rahman III2.Ana Miranda Culture and Political Legitimacy in the 11t Century

al-Andalus: the Aftasid Dynasty

3.Inês Lourinho Yusuf b. Tashfin: strategies laid down by the emir ofAlmoravids on his way to kingship(c. 1070 – 1094)

C.11. Restoring Legitimacy after the politic turmoil

Organiser: K&Q4Chair:

1.Anna M. Duch “King By Fact, Not By Law”: Exequies andLegitimacy in Late Fifteenth Century England

2.Douglas Lima ALFARROBEIRA AND THE PORTUGUESEDIPLOMACY (1438-1458)

3.Natalia Neverova From Henry of Navarre to Henry IV: to be anambassador in the time of change, the time of doubt

4th

day (27-6-2015)

15h - Closing ceremony (Batalha’s Monastery)

(Maria Helena da Cruz Coelho, Saul António Gomes, Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues, EllieWoodacre)

(Bus trip in the morning (circa 100km), Monastery’s visit, free Lunch offered by theMunicipality of Batalha)

(Return after the ceremony)

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