Kings & Queens 4 Royal Studies Network

Lisbon, 23rd-27th June 2015

Draft Schedule

Conferences 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

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 legitimacy
Organizer: K&Q4
Chair:
1.Arturo Snchez 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) in
Twelfth-Century China

B.1.By the Grace of God or free will of the people? Legitimacy of royal power in
Poland-Lithuania, 16th-18th c.
Organizer: Ana Kalinowska
Chair:
Pupilla libertatis. Royal "free elections" in the
1.Jolanta Choinska-Mika
Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth - the origins,
ideology and practice in the 16th century
2.Anna Kalinowska

Illustrious Jagiellonian blood. Dynastic tradition

and legitimacy of royal power in the 17th century
Poland-Lithuania

3.Katarzyna Kuras

The king with his people, the people with their

king. Legitimacy of royal power in the 18th c.
Poland-Lithuania

C.1. Dynastic changes, legitimacy and acculturation

Organizer: K&Q4
Chair:
1.Nuria Silleras
Dynastic legitimacy and acculturation: the
Trastmaras in Aragon (1412-1516)
2.Sergio Ramiro Ramrez

Francisco de los Cobos, precursor of Arts: news on

the assimilation process of the Empire concept in
Castile and Aragon and its impact on the image of
power

3.Zita Rohr

HOLLOW CROWNS AND SHIFTING

SOVEREIGNTIES: DYNASTIC CHANGE AND
LEGITIMACY IN THE KINGDOM OF NAPLESSICILY 1380-1442

D.1. Scholars and ecclesiastics in the legitimisation of new dynasties

Organizer: K&Q4
Chair:
1.Matthew M. Mesley

Episcopal Kingmakers: Political Legitimacy and

Gender in Thirteenth-Century Germany and England

2.Andr O. Leito, Armando

Norte

Building legitimacies: the role of legal scholars in the

consolidation of the new Hispanic dynasties (late-14th
to early-15th centuries)

13h-14h30m - Lunch

Session 2 -14h30m-16h
A.2. Muslim Monarchies
Organizer: K&Q4
Chair:
1.Fouzia Farooq

Importing Trust into the Realm: A Study of Powerbase 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

INSTRUMENTS OF THE MONARCHICAL POWER IN THE CROWN OF CASTILE DURING THE
MIDDLE AGES
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Organizer: Diana Pelaz Flores

Chair:
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 kings wife. Marriage as

instrument of Queenly authority and her identity in
the Trastmara dynasty (1369-1474)

3.Lled Ruiz Domingo

From the election to the consolidation. The strategies

of legitimacy of the Trastmara dynasty in the Crown
of Aragon.

C.2. Using political culture as strategy of legitimization

Organizer: Charlotte Backerra and Cathleen Sarti
Chair:
1.Charlotte Backerra
(Re-)Discovering a familys traditions? The
Hanoverians as successors to the throne of Great
Britain
2.Cathleen Sarti
Just a family dispute? How Sigismund Vasa was
made an alien by his uncle Charles
3.Fabian Perrson

Something Old and Something New: Weaving

Legitimacy Into Early Modern Swedish Dynasties

16h-16h30m Coffee-break

Session 3 - 16h30m-18h
A.3. Dynastic Changes, Legitimacy and Political (Dis-)Continuity a Comparative
Approach
Organiser: K&Q4
Chair:
The Stability and Strength of the Ottonian Dynasty
1.Penny Nash
in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century Germany
2.Victor Mandzjak

Three Attempts of Volhynian Monomachovyches

Inherit the Throne of Halychian Rostyslavyches

3.Iris Holzwart-Schfer

Dynastic Changes, Legitimacy and Political

(Dis)Continuity a Comparative Approach

B.3. THE LEGITIMACY LANGUAGE. CONSOLIDATITOR MECHANISMS AND

STRENGHTHENING INSTRUMENTS OF THE MONARCHICAL POWER IN THE
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CROWN OF CASTILE DURING THE MIDDLE AGES (II). Organizer: Diana Pelaz
Flores
Chair:
Francisco de Paula Caas Glvez Political legitimacy and Institutional development of
the Trastmara Monarchy in the Crown of Castile
(1369-1474)
Ral Gonzlez Gonzlez

Building legitimacies: the role of legal scholars in the

consolidation of the new Hispanic dynasties (late-14th
to early-15th centuries)

Juan Prieto Sayagus

Royal Patronage versus Nobiliary Patronage at the

Castilian monasteries during the 15th century. A
conflict of legitimacies?

C.3. Court Ceremonial as dynastic legitimacy

Organiser: K&Q4
Chair:
1.Austeja Brasiunaite

The role of Women in the Royal court and as

Medieval diplomatic envoys (diplomatic marriages
and dynastic marriage during existence of Grand
Duchy)

2.Ruth Martnez 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 Charles

IIs Restoration

18h Book exhibition on Monarchy Subjects (Faculty Library)

Day 2 (25 June 2015)

Session 4 - 9h30m-11h
A.4. Dynastic legitimacy after a coup dtat
Organiser: K&Q4
Chair:
1.Isabel P. Baleiras
1383-1385, PORTUGAL: COUP DTAT OR
DEMOCRACY?
2.Tiago Viula Faria
All in the family: cross-legitimization strategies in
two late-medieval monarchies
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3.Leonardo Carvalho-Gonalves

B.4. The rhetoric of legitimacy

Organiser: K&Q4
Chair:
1.Elizabeth Kinne

2.Estelle Parenque

3.Arlette de Jesus

The Royal good Deaths in medieval chronicles as

part of the Avis dynasty legitimacy campaign: The
examples of John I and Philippa of Lancaster in a
comparative vision.

Subject to change: Forging Early and Post-Modern

Subjectivities in Christine de Pizan and Frank
Herbert
Threats to the English Crown: Elizabeth Tudors and
Mary Queen of Scots rhetoric as prisoners
Saint Teresa of vilas Rhetoric of Royal
Legitimization: Her Letters to Philip II

C.4. Tradition and change as guarantees of dynastic continuity (18th/19th centuries)

Organiser: K&Q4
Chair:
1.Ekaterina Kolmogorova

The role of the portraiture in the supporting of the

legitimacy of the imperial power in XVIII - early
XIX century Russia

2.Pedro Urbano

A throne and two brothers: the impact of the civil war

in the composition of the Portuguese Royal
Household.

3.Jlia Platonovna
Korobtchenko

Her Majesty the Queen Maria II and the Duque of

Leuchtenberg: the first royal marriage of the
Portuguese Constitutional Monarchy

11h-11h30m Coffee-break

Session 5 - 11h30m-13h
A.5. Iberian intersections in the Late Fifteen Century
Organiser: K&Q4
Chair:
1.Germn Gamero Igea
Keeping loyalty at the end of a dynasty: the other
courtiers of Ferdinand II of Aragon (1468-1516)

2.Marcelo da Encarnao

He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tune

Propaganda, War and Legitimacy in FifteenthCentury 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 Scandinavia

Organiser: Kerstin Hundahl
Chair:
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 Smberg

The Lion, the Duke and the infant King: Legitimizing

strategies of a Swedish royal lineage in the fourteenth
century

C.5. When the ruler is a woman

Organiser: K&Q4
Chair:
1.Elisabetta Colla

When the Emperor is a woman: the case of Wu

Zetian

2.Miriam Shadis

Legitimizing queenship: the first Dynasty of the

Kingdom of Portugal

3.Ellie Woodacre

A break from the past or carrying on the tradition?

Female rulers and dynastic change: A comparative
study

13h-14h30m - Lunch

Session 6 - 14h30m-16h
A.6. Dynastic Changes in Modern Portugal (late 16th - late 17th centuries)
Organiser: K&Q4
Chair:
1.Jacqueline Hermann

O processo de legitimidade de D. Antnio, Prior do

Crato, e sua candidatura sucesso do reino de
Portugal (1578-1580)

2.Maria Leonor G. Cruz

Filipe I de Portugal: ordenaes do reino e regras de

gesto social e econmica na mudana de dinastia
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3.Filipe Francisco

Na fronteira de novas legitimidades as cortes de

1697

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

the Castilian Civil War
Organiser: Rosa Rodrguez-Porto and Sacramento Rosell-Martnez
Chair:
1.Covadonga Valdaliso
The lost chronicle of Peter I: Historiography and
Literature in the Reconstruction of the Memory of
the King
2.Bretton Rodrguez
3.Rebecca Holdorph

Competing Images of Pedro I: Lpez de Ayalas

Chronicle in Context
He is Legitimate Heir of the Realms: John of
Gaunt, Constance of Castile and the Lancastrian
Claim to Castile and Len

C.6. Legitimacy and Regnant Queenship

Organiser: K&Q4
Chair:
1.Ana de Ftima

William I and Emma of Normandy

2.Lynsey Wood

The very next blood of the King: the law of female

dynastic succession in English history

3.Mariana BrocKmann

Franco-Scottish Union: Dynasty, Legitimacy and

Regnant Queenship, 1548-1560

16h-16h30m Coffee-break

Session 7 - 16h30m-18h
A.7. The human frailty of Monarchy. Portuguese Dynastic changes and Regency
periods in XVII and XVIII centuries
Organiser: Ana Leal de Faria
Chair:
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 Lus

Joo, Prince Regent: to be or not to be in the

Dynasty of Bragana

B.7. Petrista Networks. Galicia as a case-study

Organiser: Rosa Rodrguez-Porto and Sacramento Rosell-Martnez
Chair:
Courtly Culture and Literary Patronage: The Galician
1.Ricardo Pichel Gotrrez
House of Andrade
2.Clara Pascual-Argente

El Victorials Galician Knight and the Networks of

Petrismo

3.Rosa Rodrguez-Porto and

Sacramento Rosell-Martnez

Controversy, Lineage and Memory: the Future of

Petrista Networks

C.7. Queenship and religion

Organiser: K&Q4
Chair:
1.Taiko Maria Hessler

The Queenly Dynasty: Isabel of Aragons Sainthood

and Queenship in the Medieval Iberian Context

2.Louise Berglund

Queen Philippa of Scandinavia, female piety and

authority. Two Bohun prayer books and their
shifting late medieval contexts

3.Diana LUCA GMEZCHACN

The Dominicanism of Two Virtuous Queens: Mary

and Eleanor of Aragon

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

Day 3 (26 June 2015)

Session 8 - 9h30m-11h
A.8. Mental Illnesses and the dangers of Consanguinity in Royalty
Organiser: K&Q4
Chair:
1.Boncho Dragiyski

Her (un)becoming: Isabella of Portugal (d. 1496) and

Beatriz da Silva (d. 1492)

2.Hlder Carvalhal, F. Ceballos,

T. J. Peters, G. lvarez

Dynastic Changes and Legitimacy: The role of

Consanguinity in Braganzas Dynasty (1640-1910)

3.Timothy Peters

Cognitive Archaeology: New tools for Historians.

Handwriting Assessment and Latent Semantic
Analysis of the letters of King George III of Great
Britain (1738-1820) applied to a Study of his Mental
Illnesses
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B.8. The ecclesiastical defence of royal legitimacy through discourses and actions I
Organizer: 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:
A Portuguese prologue to the schism: Fernando I and
1.Herminia Vilar
the church in the last decades of the XIVth century
2.Andr Coelho

In the coming of the Messiah of Lisbon: ecclesiastical

support during the dynastic crisis of 1383-1385

3.Nstor Vigil

Ecclesiastics in the construction of international

legitimacy of the Portuguese dynasty of Avis

C.8. Late Medieval and Early Modern Queens and Regents

Organiser: K&Q4
Chair:
1. James Ellis
2. Rene Langlois

Making and breaking peace: Women as peacemakers

in mid-fifteenth century Castile
Power & Authority of Royal Queen Mothers:
Comparing the French Queen Regent and the
Ottoman Valide Sultan during the 16th-17th centuries.

3. Ana Paula Avelar

Luisa de Guzmn: silent glimpses of a reign

11h-11h30m Coffee-break

Session 9 - 11h30m-13h
A.9. Legitimising the Braganza Dynasty
Organiser: K&Q4
Chair:
1.Viviane Kawata
Necessidade de consentimento do Reyno, & serem
aprouados pelos tres Estados delle, & em quanto
no o fossem, no poderia Reynar : the
relationships of power between Braganza Kings and
their Councillors in the 17th century"
2.Francisca Almeida
The Exaltation of Braganza Dynasty in the Royal
Baptism: Liturgy as a Means to Fulfill a Dynastic
Purpose
3.Paula Almeida
The exaltation of "holiness" of Bragana Dynasty as
legitimating strategy (XVIIth century)

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B.9. The ecclesiastical defence of royal legitimacy through discourses and actions II
Organizer: 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 Joo Branco
Bishop and ulemah : negotiating power in Portugal
1.Hermenegildo Fernandes
and in the almohada empire around 1230
2.Francisco Diaz Marcilla

Oedipus Complex in Ecclesiastical Soup: Loyalties

and Disloyalties of Clerics during the Reign of
Alfonse X and Sancho IV

3.Ricardo Seabra

The regency of Pedro of Portugal and the influence of

the clergy

C.9. Royal Ceremonies and dynastic legitimacy

Organiser: K&Q4
Chair:
1.Trond Nren Isaksen

The Norwegian wars of succession and the conflict

between two opposing ideas of legitimacy in the
second half of the twelfth century

2.Lucinda Dean

Stating their Place: Ceremonial Legitimization of the

Stewart Dynasty from 1371 to c.1460

3.Rebecca M. Favorito

The Coronation of Henry IV and the Legitimization

of Lancastrian Rule: The Lancaster Sword as a
Symbol of Conquest

13h-14h30m Lunch

Session 10 - 14h30m-16h
A.10. The War of the Spanish Succession
Organiser: K&Q4
Chair:
1.Caitlin Brady

(no title) Regency of Mariana of Austria for Charles

II

2.Cristina Agero Carnerero

The War of the Spanish Succession and the

resistance to Philip V. New documents on the
confiscation of the 11th Admiral of Castilles palaces
in Madrid

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3.Roco Martnez Lpez

The Spanish Monarchy in the crossroad: Maximilian

II Emmanuel of Bavaria after the outbreak of the
War of Spanish Succession (1700-1713)

B.10. Monarchical topics in Art and Literature

Organiser: K&Q4
Chair:
1.Alexandra Karagianni
Purple dreams of the Byzantine Macedonian dynasty
in manuscript illuminations: the usurper emperor
Basil I (867-886)
2.Ins Arajo
Iconography, Power and Legitimacy of the
Portuguese kings: Images of war in the Late
Medieval 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&Q4
Chair:
1.Mariana Bonat Trevisan

KINGS AND FATHERS: The monarchical

protection function and the fathering function in
Avis dynastic discourses (Portugal 15th Century)

2.Emma Levitt

In the flowering of his age: knightly masculinity and

the establishment of the Yorkist dynasty under
Edward IV (1461-1483)

3.Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues

Gender and legitimacy in the first generations of the

Avis dynasty

16h-16h30m Coffee-break

Session 11 - 16h30m-18h
A.11. Naples and the Bourbon Dynasty
Organiser: K&Q4
Chair:
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
Naples
3.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: Ins Lourinho?
Chair: Hermenegildo Fernandes
1.Elsa Cardoso
Ceremonial and Political Legitimacy under the Rule
of Caliph Abd ar-Rahman III
2.Ana Miranda

Culture and Political Legitimacy in the 11th Century

al-Andalus: the Aftasid Dynasty

3.Ins Lourinho

Yusuf b. Tashfin: strategies laid down by the emir of

Almoravids on his way to kingship
(c. 1070 1094)

C.11. Restoring Legitimacy after the politic turmoil

Organiser: K&Q4
Chair:
1.Anna M. Duch

King By Fact, Not By Law: Exequies and

Legitimacy in Late Fifteenth Century England

2.Douglas Lima

ALFARROBEIRA AND THE PORTUGUESE

DIPLOMACY (1438-1458)

3.Natalia Neverova

From Henry of Navarre to Henry IV: to be an

ambassador in the time of change, the time of doubt

4th day (27-6-2015)

15h - Closing ceremony (Batalhas Monastery)
(Maria Helena da Cruz Coelho, Saul Antnio Gomes, Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues, Ellie
Woodacre)

(Bus trip in the morning (circa 100km), Monasterys visit, free Lunch offered by the
Municipality of Batalha)
(Return after the ceremony)

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