Gendering Late Medieval Habsburg Dynastic Politics

Autor(en)

Christina Lutter

Abstrakt

While gender history has developed into a powerful branch of premodern history, we still know little about gender relations around Maximilian I. One reason is that research concentrated for a long time on the individual personality of the emperor without paying much attention to the manifold relations among men and women that in fact contributed to establishing his rule. Another reason is the specific constellations of Maximilian's relationships with his wives Mary of Burgundy and Bianca Maria Sforza, with his daughter Margaret of Austria and grand-daughter Mary of Hungary, which have been mostly discussed in the framework of their personal courts and regional politics and less in a wider comparative perspective. Against the backdrop of recent approaches to dynastic politics, role models, and agency, I will, first, discuss the gendered dimensions of Maximilian's dynastic politics in their wider geo-political and socio-cultural context. I will, second, move beyond a focus on key dynastic actors to take into account personal networks as fundamental for any type of premodern rule. Following court ladies and female servants and the social networks they were part of I will outline the interrelations between social ascent, office, and the politics of kinship and gender at court.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Geschichte, Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung

Journal

Austrian History Yearbook

Seiten

1-16

Anzahl der Seiten

16

ISSN

0067-2378

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0067237824000274

Publikationsdatum

2024

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504014 Gender Studies, 601012 Mittelalterliche Geschichte, 601016 Österreichische Geschichte, 601005 Europäische Geschichte

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

History

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/gendering-late-medieval-habsburg-dynastic-politics(eed6537f-2609-4026-89a7-295fbbc8debc).html