Power and Women in Southeast and Central Europe in Late Medieval and Early Modern Period (1300-1600)
Edited by Melina Rokai
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This volume offers a nuanced exploration of female authority. It brings together case studies from royal courts, urban patriciates, monastic milieus, and noble estates, while also examining how women exercised, negotiated, and represented power in the late medieval and early modern period throughout southeast and central Europe.
Power and Women in Southeast and Central Europe in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period (1300–1600) offers a nuanced exploration of female authority across a region shaped by dynastic struggles, Ottoman expansion, and shifting political cultures. This volume brings together case studies from royal courts, urban patriciates, monastic milieus, and noble estates, while it also examines how women exercised, negotiated, and represented power in contexts ranging from thirteenth-century Hungary and fourteenth-century Zadar to the aftermath of Mohács and the sixteenth-century Adriatic world. Through analyses of queens, empresses, regents, noblewomen, and urban elites, this collection reveals the diverse forms of agency available to women between 1300 and 1600. Furthermore, it challenges the narratives of female marginality and demonstrates that women were central actors in the making, performance, and preservation of political authority in the late medieval and early modern periods.
Introduction
Bibliography
The Venetian Dukes in the Early Middle Ages: First Part (Early Eighth Century – 942)
The Venetian Dukes in the Early Middle Ages: Second Part (942-1008)
The Venetian Dukes in the High Middle Ages (1102-1229)
Ducal Elections
The Venetian Co-Rulers
Evaluations on the Venetian Dukes
The Venetian Dukes as Military Leaders
Plots and Revolts Against the Venetian Dukes
Index
Melina Rokai, PhD, is currently engaged as a Senior Research Associate at the Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade in Serbia. Dr Melina Rokai obtained her PhD in History at the Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade in 2013. She holds postgraduate degree, Master of Studies in Modern British and European History at the University of Oxford in 2010.
So far, Dr Melina Rokai’s research and publication interests have been in the spheres of late medieval and modern history, with the emphasise on women’s history, history of culture, history of religion, imagology – the creation of the ‘other’ within the post-colonial framework.
- Edited by Melina Rokai
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