This series of sessions on medieval and early modern dynasticism are organized by the project ‘The Jagiellonians: Dynasty, Memory and Identity in Central Europe’.
The aim is to ask afresh what royal and princely dynasty was at the time. The sessions seek to put dynasty under the spotlight, as a category of analysis in its own right, and as a major organising political principle in the Pre-Modern world.
The sessions are sponsored by the European Research Council Project ‘The Jagiellonians: Dynasty, Memory & Identity in Central Europe’ at the University of Oxford
Dynasticism in Medieval and Early Modern Europe and Beyond, I [Session No: 104]
The first out of four sessions brings together three wide-ranging papers on dynasties in Western and Central Europe: the Habsburgs, the Jagiellonians, and Alpine dynasties. It explores how dynasties were constructed and used in the late middle ages and early modern period and presents different approaches to studying them.
Dynasticism in Medieval and Early Modern Europe and Beyond, II: Constructing Dynasties in Central and Eastern Europe [Session No: 204]
This panel focuses on Central and Eastern Europe and considers ideological, discursive, and political constructions of dynasty in the high and late Middle Ages, as well as the role of material culture in that process.
Dynasticism in Medieval and Early Modern Europe and Beyond, III: Visual Culture and Dynasty in the Jagiellonian Era[Session No: 304]
This panel is dedicated to the visual strategies used by late medieval and Renaissance dynasties to legitimate themselves politically, to claim particular dynastic origins, affinities, and alliances, and to emphasize particular relationships within and without the dynasty while eliding others.
Dynasticism in Medieval and Early Modern Europe and Beyond, IV: The Jagiellonians in Hungary and Bohemia[Session No: 504]
This panel focuses on Jagiellonian rule in Hungary and Bohemia and includes papers that explore its international and internal political and ideological dynamics, focusing especially on the interaction between the dynasty and local political and intellectual elites.
The sessions are precursors of a major international conference in 2016: Dynasty and Dynasticism 1400 – 1700
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