Hybrid Conference
Powerful Women in Their Own Words
16-17 May 2024
On site: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Room B112.D)
By zoom: the link will be sent to those registering at: ereginae4@gmail.com
Scientific organisation: Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues
Executive organisation: Inês Olaia
Organised by the projects Pouvoir féminin et mécénat: Portugal, France, Bourgogne (XIIIe – début du XVIe siècle) and eReginae. This conference is supported by FCT under grants 2022.14988.CBM, UIDB/04311/2020, and UIDP/04311/2020.
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Programme
16 May
9h00 – 12h00
Presentation of the projects Pouvoir féminin et mécénat: Portugal, France, Bourgogne (XIIIe – début du XVIe siècle) and eReginae
Murielle Gaude-Ferragu (Université de Paris-Nord) and Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa)
La "mauvaise reine" : Isabeau de Bavière, ses testaments et son trésor (1385-1435)
Murielle Gaude-Ferragu (Université de Paris-Nord)
Les mots de la dernière chance: autour des testaments des reines de Portugal
Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa)
Forgotten wishes of a forgotten infanta: the will of D. Beatriz, Duchess of Savoy
Ana Luísa Sonsino (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa)
12h00 – 15h00
Lunch
15h00 – 17h00
Guided tour of the Tipografia Popular do Seixal (Popular Typography of Seixal) that still employs traditional methods, similar to those of the 16th century.
17 May
9h00-10h45
Transmitting, writing, and interpreting the word of the Queen in the Hispanic kingdoms during the 15th century
Diana Pelaz (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
Filipa de Coimbra and her words: when a prince's daughter becomes the king' s counsellor
Inês Olaia (Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa)
My kinsmen or the king’s? Conflicts of loyalty experienced by fourteenth-century queens of England and France.
Louise Gay (Université de Paris-Nord)
10h45 – 11h15
Coffee break
11h15 – 13h00
Aurum Regine: Joan of Navarre's successful letter of supplication
Ellie Woodacre (University of Winchester)
Domina regina, qui eam sic expresse fieri voluit: Re-evaluating co-rulership in fourteenth-century Crown of Aragon through Violante of Bar's documentation
Lledó Ruiz Domingo (Universitat de València)
Reading Queen Leonor Teles' power through her own words
Isabel Baleiras (Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa)
13h00 – 14h30
Lunch
14h30 – 16h00
Philippa of Lancaster (1360-1415) and her daughter Isabel (1397-1471): do we get to know them through the letters they wrote?
Manuela Santos Silva (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa)
The personal and institutional correspondence of Queen Leonor (1458-1525): assessing motivations, emotions and strategies
Isabel dos Guimarães Sá (Universidade do Minho)
The letters of Isabel of Portugal: caring, organizing and intervening
Maria Filomena Andrade (Universidade Aberta)
