Charlotte Backerra, Seminar für Mittlere und Neuere Geschichte, Lehrstuhl für Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Sunday, 4 September 2022
1:30-2:00 WELCOME/COFFEE
2:00-2:30 INTRODUCTION
Ellie Woodacre
2:30–4:00 SESSION 1: Account Books as Sources
Chair: TBA
Elysia Cains: A Psychological Reading of the Financial Activities of Eleanor of Castile
Chris Woolgar: Treasure, Wealth, and Two Fourteenth-Century English Queens
Isabel Escalera Fernández: The Account Books as Testimonies of the Promotion of Jewellery by Queen Isabel la Catolica
4:00–4:30 COFFEE
4:30–5:30 LIGHTNING ROUND 1: Tudor Queens
Chair: TBA
Valerie Schutte: Anne of Cleves and the Brockehouse Affair
Elizabeth Norton: Jane Seymour as Lady of the Manor
Nicola Clark: Tudor Queens Consort and ‘Household Economy’: a Two-Way Street?
Andrea Silen-McMillin: The Lands of the Tudor Queens
5:45–6:45 KEYNOTE
Katrin Keller: Of Donations, Debts and Domains. Economy and Finance as Spaces of Agency for Princely Women in the Holy Roman Empire
6:45–7:30 WINE RECEPTION
Monday, 5 September 2022
8:30–9:00 WELCOME/COFFEE
9:00-10:30 SESSION 2: Queens’ Lands and Administration
Chair: TBA
Anaïs Waag: A Year in the Life: Petronila of Aragon in the Comital Accounts of Provisioning at Vilamajor (June 1156–April 1157)
Katia Wright: The Queen’s Administration: The Case of Philippa of Hainault’s Estates
Inês Olaia: Tax Collecting in the Portuguese Queens’ Lands: Double the Trouble?
10:30–11:00 COFFEE
11:00–12:30 SESSION 3: Administration and Finances
Chair: TBA
Manuela Santos Silva: The Administration of the Queens’ Town of Óbidos (Portugal, 1387–1437)
Jan Vojtíšek: Administration of the Queen’s Domain in Fourteenth-Century Bohemia
Lledó Ruiz Domingo: The Queen’s Treasury: Queenship, Resources, and Administration in the Crown of Aragon during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century
12:30-1:30 LIGHTNING ROUND 2: Provisions for Death and Widowhood
Chair: TBA
Ana Maria Rodrigues: “With All My Wisdom and Health”: Queens’ Wealth and its Distribution at the Time of Death
Zsolt Simon: The Hungarian Queen’s Lands and Revenues in the Middle Ages
Charlotte Backerra: Dowagers’ Challenge: Hessian Landgravines and their Dowers
Laura Rehrmann: “She shouldn’t have more than other noble widows”: Dower in the Context of Security, Appreciation, and Male Power
1:30–2:30 LUNCH
2:30-4:00 SESSION 4: Dowers and Dowries
Chair: TBA
Paula Del Val Vales: Mapping Thirteenth-Century Queens’ Dower Lands in Castile, Aragon, and England
Zita Rohr: Unrealized Assets and Blue-Sky Opportunities: Dowers and Dowries in Late Medieval Aragon and France
Silvia Z. Mitchell: Leaning-In Habsburg Style: Mariana of Austria’s Pension and Economic Resources in Widowhood, 1676–1696
4:00–4:30 COFFEE
4:30–6:00 SESSION 5: Credit
Chair: TBA
Emily Rose: The Queen and her Moneyman: Eleanor of Castile and Hagin fil. Cress in the Thirteenth-Century Real Estate Market
Cristina Garcia Garcia: Gifts and Credit: An Economic Perspective for Studying Royal Affinities from Observations of the Royal Household of Juan I
Ruben Gonzalez Cuerva: Bankrupting your Banker: Empress Maria of Austria, Constantino Magno, and the Limits of Moneylending
6:00–7:00 LIGHTNING ROUND 3: Power, Councils, and Households
Chair: TBA
Isabela Alberquerue: Anglo-Saxon Queens and the Exercise of Political Power: Possibilities of Analysis
Clara Kaleogérakis: “para sustentación de su Casa”: When the Economy of a Household Sealed the Fate of Joanna of Castile (1496)
Alexander Isaacson: To Be and Remain Her Majesty’s Faithful, Obedient, and Loyal Subjects: Multiple Sources of Authority of Queen Dowager Kristina in Early Seventeenth-Century Sweden
Maria Hayward: Serving the Queen: The Role of Catherine of Braganza’s Council
7:00 DINNER
Tuesday, 6 September 2022
8:30–9:00 WELCOME/COFFEE
9:00–10:30 SESSION 6: Economic Resources
Chair: TBA
Fabian Persson: The Island and the Spider: Networks of Early Modern Queens
Ben James: Dona Maria (1644–1693): Economic Resources and Power of an Illegitimate Royal
Patrik Paštrnák: Reconstructing the Financial Background of the Bridal Journeys: Festival and Agency
10:30–11:00 COFFEE
11:00–12:30 ROUNDTABLE: Database Projects
Chair: Cathleen Sarti
Anna Jagos: Regesta reginarum: House Luxembourg
Jason Sadler: GeoData, University of Southampton
Stefan Dumont: Telota, BBAW (to be confirmed)
Tracy Chapman Hamilton: Mapping the Premodern Women, Sweet Briar (US)
Anna Foka & Dann Wu: Centre for Digital Humanities, Uppsala
12:30–1:00 CLOSING REMARKS
TBA
1:00 LUNCH
END OF CONFERENCE