Powerful Women in Their Own Words
Lisbonne, 16-17 mai 2024

Hybrid Conference 

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.

https://chul.letras.ulisboa.pt/eventos-detalhe.php?p=1210

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)