Overview
- Examines the medieval queens of Hungary primarily through their material culture and through the spaces they built, renovated, or restored
- Showcases common features with the west as well as how the queens had to deal with court structures unique to Hungary
- Argues that queens used material culture and space to prop up their own position when it was weakened by external circumstances
Part of the book series: Queenship and Power (QAP)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“Mielke’s work demonstrates that material sources, from coins to funerary monuments, can inform scholars about the ways in which royal women displayed their political and religious authority that transcend the written record.” (Jessica L. Mineri, Royal Studies Journal, Vol. 9 (1), 2022)
“Mielke’s comprehensive examination of the full range of material objects that can be associated with Hungary’s queens from the eleventh through fourteenth centuries demonstrates how the ‘material turn’ in historiography can correct the historical evaluation of these poorly documented royal consorts. By examining both surviving objects and those described in written sources, from their jewelry to crowns, seals, books, donatives to churches, their places of retirement and even their physical remains, he shows women constrained by their roles who nevertheless developed spheres of autonomous action and self-expression.”— Patrick Geary, Professor Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study, USA
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Christopher Mielke is Executive Director of the Beverly Heritage Center in West Virginia, USA. From 2017–2018, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Al-Quds Bard College for Arts and Sciences in East Jerusalem. He received his PhD in Medieval Studies from Central European University in 2017.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Archaeology and Material Culture of Queenship in Medieval Hungary, 1000–1395
Authors: Christopher Mielke
Series Title: Queenship and Power
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66511-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66510-4Published: 22 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66513-5Published: 23 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-66511-1Published: 21 April 2021
Series ISSN: 2730-938X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9398
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 317
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 38 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Medieval Europe, History of Germany and Central Europe, Gender Studies